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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4287094, member: 85693&quot;]Nice coin, RC!&nbsp; What a coincidence - I just got one of these as well, and also all the way from the UK.&nbsp; Unlike your lovely green example, mine has been severely stripped, but it went for $6.47 so how could I resist?</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I was wondering about the shield - you probably know all this already, but as OCRE put it (RIC 1688), these come in two varieties:&nbsp; &quot;shield on which are the Dioscuri or she-wolf and twins&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; There appears to be a third variety, Victory, as noted in this CNG auction: <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=69637" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=69637" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=69637</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is mine - I <i>think</i> mine is the wolf-n-twins.&nbsp; It weights 23.61 grams (I haven&#039;t worked up the attribution for the flip yet). </p><p><br /></p><p>My photos are worse than usual - this coin is so shiny it is hard to capture - and so two versions, each lousy in its own way:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1091216[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1091217[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess this looks like a wolf...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1091218[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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