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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8244472, member: 110350&quot;]Following up on [USER=94602]@pprp[/USER]&#039;s and [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER]&#039;s comments, we know that that my just-purchased Septimius Severus tetradrachm from Tyre, categorized by Nomos as Prieur 1533, is an obverse die match to the only other known example of Prieur 1533 (the&nbsp; CNG specimen from the Prieur Collection). However, it is not a reverse die match to that example, because mine has dots within the reverse legend and CNG&#039;s clearly does not. Instead, I believe that my example is a reverse die match to CNG&#039;s Prieur 1534 (classified as a different type because the obverse depicts the Emperor laureate, draped, and cuirassed rather than solely laureate as in Prieur 1533). The reverse lettering and dots on my Prieur 1533, as well as the eagle, appear to me to be identical to the reverse of CNG&#039;s Prieur 1534. My example of Prieur 1533 is on the left, and CNG&#039;s Prieur 1534 specimen is on the right:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1451752[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Therefore, I suppose that in theory my coin could be viewed as a hybrid between a Prieur 1533 obverse and a Prieur 1534 reverse. (The 12 other examples of Prieur 1534 on ACSearch all also appear to have dots in the reverse legend.) I hope that doesn&#039;t suggest that my coin is some sort of fourree or otherwise an ancient counterfeit! The weight of mine (13.83 g) is comparable to that of CNG&#039;s Prieur 1533 (13.96 g.) and Prieur 1534 (13.38 g.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I don&#039;t know how one could call mine a hybrid without more specimens of Prieur 1533 than the two that are presently known with the laureate head obverse, namely mine and the CNG specimen from the Prieur Collection. For all we know, the two types of obverse weren&#039;t really thought of as different types at the time they were minted, and it may not have been unusual to combine the reverse die of Prieur 1534 with both kinds of obverse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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