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<p>[QUOTE="Choucas, post: 7564811, member: 100117"]I don't have any Domitian so here's a green double sestertius of Postumus I bought on ebay, even if I didn't want it at first. The thumbnail showed the attractive reverse (nicer in hand actually) and the starting price was low, but the obverse was... disappointing. I saw it later again in my ebay feed, still no bids. I paid more attention to the reverse and noticed a rare and interesting error : VICTORI AVG instead of VICTORIA AVG, referenced as De Witte 309.</p><p><br /></p><p>I could find four other examples in auctions and hoard, all struck with the same reverse dies and sharing two different obverse dies. The (high quality) drawing in De Witte's book has the same dies as mine (I do not include it in the four other examples). So I got it for starting price anyway.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1304334[/ATTACH] </p><p><u>O.</u> : IMP C M CASS LAT POSTVMVS P F AVG</p><p><u>R. </u>: VICTORI AVG (sic)</p><p>26mm ; 9.95g</p><p>De Witte 309 ; Bastien 286 ; Estrée-Wamin 76[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Choucas, post: 7564811, member: 100117"]I don't have any Domitian so here's a green double sestertius of Postumus I bought on ebay, even if I didn't want it at first. The thumbnail showed the attractive reverse (nicer in hand actually) and the starting price was low, but the obverse was... disappointing. I saw it later again in my ebay feed, still no bids. I paid more attention to the reverse and noticed a rare and interesting error : VICTORI AVG instead of VICTORIA AVG, referenced as De Witte 309. I could find four other examples in auctions and hoard, all struck with the same reverse dies and sharing two different obverse dies. The (high quality) drawing in De Witte's book has the same dies as mine (I do not include it in the four other examples). So I got it for starting price anyway. [ATTACH=full]1304334[/ATTACH] [U]O.[/U] : IMP C M CASS LAT POSTVMVS P F AVG [U]R. [/U]: VICTORI AVG (sic) 26mm ; 9.95g De Witte 309 ; Bastien 286 ; Estrée-Wamin 76[/QUOTE]
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