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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2003520, member: 42773&quot;]I think the missing X has to do with a weak strike. That whole corner around 7 o&#039;clock is weak. What&#039;s more interesting to me is the officina mark. Is it III? Or an early use of IV instead of IIII? I believe this is a Siscia mint coin, RIC 5(b) 651, p. 87. There are a lot of interesting officina marks in the early Probus ants. It seems the mints were undergoing a transition from Roman numerals and abbreviations to Greek, and one finds examples of differing styles, sometimes jumbled together. For example RIC records one series of Siscia officina marks for 651 as P(rima) to VI, and another series combines Roman numerals with Greek symbols. And this occurs in the other mints as well, Ticinium, Lugdunum, etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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