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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 5130163, member: 85693&quot;]I&#039;ve about gone blind trying to attribute this one!&nbsp; I keep telling myself this is what makes collecting low grade material fun. </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, the seller attribution is wrong - RIC 784 has COS IIII obverse, and mine is clearly COS III.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mostly-missing reverse legend is frustrating, but I think it must be DES IIII type (RIC 749).&nbsp; My main reason for saying this is that there is a letter directly behind the snake head and this only seems to happen on some DES IIII types, never, so that I can find, SALVS AVG types (RIC 636).</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I think I found an obverse die match from an acsearch for RIC 749?&nbsp; Peculiarities of the lettering and the bust seem to align, though mine has more wear (mine on the right):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1203552[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Note the letter E behind the snake (though the reverse die does not match mine, it is close, maybe):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1203556[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2594917" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2594917" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2594917</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The auction photo is poor because I don&#039;t have an acsearch membership for the full-sized version. </p><p><br /></p><p>Mine again:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1203558[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have another example of RIC 749 I bought last year - the DES is clear (somewhat) on the reverse.&nbsp; Note there is no letter behind the snake&#039;s head - some of the others I looked at were like this, but not all. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1203568[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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