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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3023019, member: 19463"]My similar coin shows Elagabalus and Julia Maesa and a minor variation of the reverse legend. It uses first I<u><b>ȣ</b></u> as does your but the second time the same letters came up, they are spelled out CΕΛΕVΚ<u><b>OV.</b></u></p><p><u><b>[ATTACH=full]752103[/ATTACH] </b></u></p><p><u><b><br /></b></u></p><p>Another reverse type here used the OV both times but had to get creative at the end to fit in all the letters. Some coins would have continued the end in line but here the last letters were flipped in exergue ΛΙΤΩΝ, dropping the E and making ligate the ΩΝ. They did every die as it struck them at the time. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]752106[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3023019, member: 19463"]My similar coin shows Elagabalus and Julia Maesa and a minor variation of the reverse legend. It uses first I[U][B]ȣ[/B][/U] as does your but the second time the same letters came up, they are spelled out CΕΛΕVΚ[U][B]OV. [ATTACH=full]752103[/ATTACH] [/B][/U] Another reverse type here used the OV both times but had to get creative at the end to fit in all the letters. Some coins would have continued the end in line but here the last letters were flipped in exergue ΛΙΤΩΝ, dropping the E and making ligate the ΩΝ. They did every die as it struck them at the time. [ATTACH=full]752106[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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