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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2214618, member: 42773&quot;]My final oddity for the day is this Licinius I, emperor-borne-by-eagle type. This just has to be barbarous, or I&#039;ll eat my hat...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]433087[/ATTACH]</p><p>For starters, RIC only records right, laureate, cuirassed busts for this type from Arles, as so...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]433088[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Furthermore, a laureate, cuirassed bust left with spear over left shoulder isn&#039;t recorded in RIC VII <u>at all</u>. The obverse of my coin is a flipped image of G2, laureate, cuirassed, with spear over right shoulder. If I flip the obverse of my coin horizontally, it becomes legit...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]433089[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But the style is too crude for an official issue, so I&#039;m going with barbarous. Notice also that the mint mark is TARL, but the engraver ran out of room in exergue and stuck the L over to the right, next to the end of the reverse inscription, lol.</p><p><br /></p><p>This concludes my trio of funky coins for the day. Sometimes you want &quot;nice&quot; coins, sometimes you want weird ones.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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