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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 3652060, member: 82616&quot;]Thank you Andrew for posting your no mintmark example because it allows me to make a distinction between it and the OP. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yours is from the very fist issue struck at Ephesus with the shortened obverse legend. They were <i>intentionally</i> struck without mintmarks and are indeed fairly rare. Here&#039;s my somewhat raggedy example.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]981260[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The OP coin on the other hand is a no mintmark from an irregular issue, that may or may not exist, dated COS III and produced between issues 5 &amp; 6 after mintmarks were well established controls on the reverse. Only three types are known: AVG in wreath (for Vespasian), PACI ORB (for Vespasian &amp; Titus), &amp; the dynastic type ( for Vespasian). I have 3 of examples <i>sans</i> the AVG type.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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