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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2334526, member: 19463&quot;]It is RIC 6 page 644 volume VII like your wildwinds match but officina 3 (III).&nbsp; Very few issues used Roman numerals for the whole range of workshops and there are other mints of Licinius that had III in the field for denomination or other purposes.&nbsp; Catalogs rarely show all the workshop variations (there were 8 on this issue).&nbsp; If you want to trade for a silver denarius of Septimius Severus, let me know.&nbsp; I love oddball officina coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll bet your seller did not know how close this coin came to being really special.&nbsp; The coin below was from that issue but in the name of Valens, Licinius&#039; henchman who was not around long enough to have decent looking coins under $10,000.</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=73739" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=73739" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=73739</a></p><p>Two hints: 1. Learn to tell the Valens of RIC volume VII from the one of Volume IX.&nbsp; 2.Buy the ones that look like the one below (RIC 7):</p><p><img src="http://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/38/57/73739.m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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