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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1874723, member: 19463&quot;]Style, lack of mintmark, appearance of metal not consistent with silver coins of the period, reverse inappropriate for a living Augusta, letter shapes on two sides not matching - others?</p><p><br /></p><p>I ask myself if I were in charge of the mint and was ordered to produce the first coins for the wife of the Emperor, how would those coins look?&nbsp;&nbsp; Assuming that they would be a unique reverse as used for Fausta, Helena, Theodora or Constantia, I would expect the coins to be similar in some ways to those issues.&nbsp; It is not.&nbsp; I ask why?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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