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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2532038, member: 19463&quot;]This is an interesting one for a starter.&nbsp; The ruler on the obverse can be identified without a single letter of legend because only four rulers issued the type and three can be ruled out by the size of the coin and the headgear on the portrait.&nbsp; Always start an ID quest in late Romans with the reverse.&nbsp; Only consider rulers who actually issued that reverse type.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I rather like the reverse type.&nbsp; Victor mentioned Dane&#039;s spreadsheets but neglected to mention there are 2200 variations on these.&nbsp; I have relatively few here:</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fh.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fh.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fh.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Dane also has a photo illustrated site here:</p><p><a href="http://www.catbikes.ch/helvetica/feltemps.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.catbikes.ch/helvetica/feltemps.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.catbikes.ch/helvetica/feltemps.htm</a></p><p>She has a huge number of coins for your comparison but first you need to decide which mint made the coin in question.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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