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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Topcat7, post: 2458609, member: 73372&quot;][USER=78744]@Scalight[/USER]&nbsp; &nbsp; Firstly &quot;Wecome&quot;</p><p>Secondly, your question appears to have more to do with attributing coins in general rather than this specific coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have found that there are as many &#039;recipies&#039; (for identifying coins), as there are recipies for making dishes (of food).</p><p>In some cases looking at the &#039;Legend&#039; will help significantly. In some cases looking at the portrait will provide assistance. Is the bust &#039;Laureate&#039; or &#039;Radiate&#039;. Is the bust facing left or right. Is the bust &#039;draped&#039; or &#039;cuirassed&#039; (or both). Those are just SOME of the things I look for on the &#039;obverse&#039; side of a coin (when such things can be found).</p><p>On the &#039;reverse&#039; side of the coin you could look at the &#039;legend&#039; (again),&nbsp; the &#039;mintmark&#039;, the &#039;picture&#039; (image), the content of the &#039;picture&#039;, and the &#039;field&#039; markings.</p><p>These are some of the things that help (me) to determine what coin I am looking at, and to narrow it down further the composition (bronze/silver/gold), the size, and the weight all provide substantiating evidence when &#039;attributing&#039; a coin.</p><p>It is also my experience that when you do all of these things (and many more) a correct &#039;attribution&#039; is only possible, and not guaranteed.</p><p>I am relatively new to this, too, and I do hope that my comments have been helpful to you. Regards[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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