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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blake Davis, post: 5228478, member: 91820&quot;]Agreed - since there doesn&#039;t appear to be any evidence of coins where this was worn away (but see next post).&nbsp; I just did another quick search on ACSEARCH.com - nearly every coin of this type had a shield with a dot in the middle and a design around that.&nbsp; There were not that many with nothing at all, and those that did were in various states of preservation.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t have time to study the coins more closely, which I will get to later this weekend. But I could find no other coin of this type with the VIC GER inscription or where it appeared to be worn off.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;I have noticed that there were some pretty awful and inartistic portraits of Marcus around and subsequent to the period in which the coin was struck - was that due to the need to get out the coins as fast as possible to pay the soldiers or was it just an unskilled celator(s) - or both? And if it was the need for speed, why did it continue into the reign of Commodus when presumably that need was no longer there? Assumptions can be misleading since there is almost always no way to prove an assertion one way or another.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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