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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2457786, member: 19463&quot;]That is a very non-typical coin.&nbsp; The name of the ruler appeared on obverse left with only his title(?) PERP (forever as in perpetual rather than perpetrator as in criminal even though the latter might fit the guy in question ) remaining at the right on flan.&nbsp; What is unusual is his repeating the name across the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first step is trying to identify the general period/place suggested by the style.&nbsp; In this case the large cross and facing bust shouts Byzantine.&nbsp; This become easier the more coins you experience.&nbsp; Often it helps to identify which rulers used a specific type.&nbsp; In this case, this is the cross.&nbsp; Then we are down to the searching.&nbsp; I find Google sometimes works but it fails here. acsearch.info is all coins but lacks the search sophistication needed to correct minor misspellings so you are advised to search on fewer words.&nbsp; Here &quot;fo ca&quot;&nbsp; does the trick but sometimes you just have to keep changing the search until you get some hits.&nbsp; Searching web references is more of a performance art than a science.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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