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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 5143714, member: 85693&quot;]Nice coin and worth the wait. </p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I like banker&#039;s marks.&nbsp; They show the coin was used.&nbsp; Back when I was collecting Chinese chopmarked world crowns, there were efforts to translate the Chinese ideograms - there was some success with this, but there are so many ideograms and chopmarks that I never had much luck nailing down examples in my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an extreme example - a US trade dollar - where do I begin?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1207467[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But back to ancients:&nbsp; no banker&#039;s marks on my Paullus, but like Doug&#039;s mine has an &quot;al marco&quot; gouge:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1207465[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1207464[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Roman</b> <b>Republic&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Denarius </b></p><p><b>L. Aemilius Lepidus Paullus</b></p><p><b>(62 B.C.) Rome Mint</b></p><p>Concordia veiled &amp; diademed r., PAVLLVS LEPIDVS CONCORDIA / TER PAVLVS above and under L Aemilius Paullus standing r., trophy, Perseus and two sons captive on the left.</p><p>Aemilia 10; Crawford 415/1.</p><p>(3.83 grams / 19 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Note:&nbsp; </b><i>Al marco</i> marks obverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;...many Roman Republican denarii issues between 123 &amp; 49/48 BC were adjusted <i>al marco</i>...adjust the flans before striking, by gouging slivers of metal...with a scorper. This produces characteristic undercut lunate ‘judder’ marks, belly forward across the cut. The metal of the judders folds over, and the judder is usually visible...&quot;&nbsp; Clive Stannard[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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