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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4558437, member: 110350"][USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER], am I correct that the example of this coin type that I found in the CNG archive, sold in the Triton XII auction in 2009, has a die-break on the reverse in the same location? Here's a somewhat larger photo of that coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1128467[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I do think my coin might be a double-die match to the CNG coin; compare to the CNG coin these slightly (and considerably) larger photos of mine -- two photos of each side:</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1128471[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1128472[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1128473[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1128474[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Note that the small cracks on the obverses of both coins appear to be in the same location: running between the bottoms of the necks of Macrinus and Diadumenian, extending diagonally upwards to the right from the back of Diadumenian's neck, and extending to the left from a point beneath Diadumenian's chin.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, the coins obviously aren't the same coin, because the "lathe dimples" are in different places on both the obverses and reverses. Which certainly proves, if the two coins are from the same dies, that the lathe dimples must be on the flans and not the dies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4558437, member: 110350"][USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER], am I correct that the example of this coin type that I found in the CNG archive, sold in the Triton XII auction in 2009, has a die-break on the reverse in the same location? Here's a somewhat larger photo of that coin: [ATTACH=full]1128467[/ATTACH] I do think my coin might be a double-die match to the CNG coin; compare to the CNG coin these slightly (and considerably) larger photos of mine -- two photos of each side: Reverse: [ATTACH=full]1128471[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1128472[/ATTACH] Obverse: [ATTACH=full]1128473[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1128474[/ATTACH] Note that the small cracks on the obverses of both coins appear to be in the same location: running between the bottoms of the necks of Macrinus and Diadumenian, extending diagonally upwards to the right from the back of Diadumenian's neck, and extending to the left from a point beneath Diadumenian's chin. However, the coins obviously aren't the same coin, because the "lathe dimples" are in different places on both the obverses and reverses. Which certainly proves, if the two coins are from the same dies, that the lathe dimples must be on the flans and not the dies.[/QUOTE]
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