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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4559442, member: 99456&quot;]I&#039;d say your first coin mishap ended up working out well.&nbsp; Your second choice is a great looking coin.&nbsp; Also, nice demonstration of &quot;where the dimple came from - die v. flan&quot; - your die matches look good to me.&nbsp; Here&#039;s another coin with Pontianus as legate:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1128661[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="4">Moesia Inferior, Marcianopolis,&nbsp; <b>Macrinus with Diadumenian</b> as Caesar, AD 217-218, Æ Pentassarion, Pontianus, consular legate</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Obv:</b> AVT K ΟΠEΛ CEVH MAKPEINOC K M ΟΠE ANTΩNEINOC, confronted heads of Macrinus right, laureate, and Diadumenian left, bareheaded </font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Rev:</b> VΠ ΠONTIANOV MAPKIANOΠOΛEITΩN, Hera standing facing, head left, holding phiale and scepter; E (mark of value) to left</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Ref: </b><a href="https://archive.org/details/p1dieantikenmn01akaduoft/page/236/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/p1dieantikenmn01akaduoft/page/236/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">AMNG I 722</a> var. (E to right plus flaming altar); Varbanov 1185a var. (E to right plus altar)</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Note:</b> <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3328499" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3328499" rel="nofollow">CNG coin</a> from same dies &quot;currently unique variety with mark of value to left of Hera and no altar&quot;</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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