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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2368717, member: 19463&quot;]Since you have so much info on the card, I&#039;ll just make a few general comments.&nbsp; Claudius II and most of the rulers of his era issued a large number of different reverse types showing various gods or personifications of virtues like &#039;foresight&#039;.&nbsp; I have several coins of Claudius II but not this one.&nbsp; Your other coins are a century later and from a period with a smaller number of reverse types per ruler but more collectible variations due to the increasing practice of using mintmarks giving the mint city and workshop number as John explained.&nbsp; A few coins of Claudius used mintmarks but more of them require separation by style or looking them up in a catalog that attributes them.&nbsp; The person who wrote your labels used a book by David Sear Roman Coins and their Values which is an older one volume edition.&nbsp; Sear has since come out with a 5 volume set with different numbers but many of us have one of his older books since they have a lot of good information for a very little money.&nbsp; I have the 1970 edition but there are older and newer ones out there.&nbsp; This link shows why this can be a confusing subject but Mr. Sear&#039;s books have been growing for many years and there are many used ones out there.</p><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_11?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;field-keywords=sear+roman+coins&amp;sprefix=sear+roman+%2Caps%2C147" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_11?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;field-keywords=sear+roman+coins&amp;sprefix=sear+roman+%2Caps%2C147" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_11?url=search-alias=stripbooks&amp;field-keywords=sear+roman+coins&amp;sprefix=sear+roman+,aps,147</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I do note that one $10 example is in German so read descriptions if you decide to buy one.&nbsp; You can get all the same information online but many of us like books.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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