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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2278448, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;m always i the minority on everything here but I really think collectors are taking this star business a lot more seriously than the mint did.&nbsp; I do not buy into the theory that the star is the sun god and belonged in front or why they moved it.&nbsp; There are also quinarii&nbsp; with no star.&nbsp; I suspect this means the same thing as the drapery direction on Domna/Venus coins but I have no idea what that is.&nbsp; It does look like the two star model was a correction but it was on more than one die so there are multiple possibilities for the big WHY?&nbsp;&nbsp; RIC thought so little of the matter that the listing is &quot;usually in field, star&quot; without mentioning left or right.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I offer this coin as evidence that the star was important to be on that side.&nbsp; It is really crowded in on this die and would have been put on the left if random was allowable.&nbsp; Maybe the mintmaster got extra pay for every 100th die produced and wrong side stars marked those special dies.&nbsp; Wild theories need love, too.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]455027[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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