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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FitzNigel, post: 2794318, member: 74712&quot;]Unfortunately the book does not provide a description, just three pictures:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]649858[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>131a and c are quite dark and hard to make out from the photos.&nbsp; The best I can tell in differences is some of the locations of letters compared to the designs.&nbsp; You&#039;ll note both b and c have the double beaded border like the OP.&nbsp; The obverses of b and c appear to be the same, but lettering on the reverses is different.&nbsp; The &#039;M&#039; in &#039;Maria&#039; is thin in b and wide in c - both begin under the child&#039;s head.&nbsp; Coin a has a thin &#039;M&#039; like b, but the &#039;A&#039; in &#039;Maria&#039; is partly obscured by the Virgin&#039;s feet, but like coin c.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]649866[/ATTACH] </p><p>On my coin, the &#039;M&#039; is wide, but begins above the child&#039;s head instead of below it.&nbsp; Also, the legend in the obverse follows the roundness of the die, rather than going straight across the banner such as coins b and c (I believe coin a&#039;s legend does the same thing as my coin, but it is nearly impossible to tell from the picture in the book).</p><p><br /></p><p>The book is <i>The Normans&#039; coins of the Kingdom of Sicily </i>by D&#039;Andrea and Contreras.&nbsp; It&#039;s bilingual (English and Italian), and I suspect I&#039;ll be in for some interesting English grammar errors judging by the title...&nbsp; I&#039;ll do a review of it at some point (again, just got it yesterday, and I&#039;m in the middle of another book right now)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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