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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4771782, member: 99456"]A beautiful tray of 30, are all quality coins. Congrats on #30. As [USER=14873]@jamesicus[/USER] has illustrated, less can be more. I find the elbow angle on the reverse, and the stray hair on top of head useful to hone in quickly on the likely die matches - yours look good to me. Here's my denarius of this type:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1162262[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>A. Postumius A.f. Sp.n. Albinus</b>, 81 BC, AR Serrate Denarius, Rome mint</p><p><b>Obv: </b>Veiled head of Hispania right</p><p><b>Rev: </b>Togate figure standing left, raising hand; aquila to left, fasces with axe to right</p><p><b>Ref:</b> Crawford <a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-372.2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-372.2" rel="nofollow">372/2</a></p><p><br /></p><p>with its Shaefer double die match from:<a href="http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/schaefer.rrdp.b05#schaefer_372-2_b05_p191-0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/schaefer.rrdp.b05#schaefer_372-2_b05_p191-0" rel="nofollow">bk.5 p.191</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1162265[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4771782, member: 99456"]A beautiful tray of 30, are all quality coins. Congrats on #30. As [USER=14873]@jamesicus[/USER] has illustrated, less can be more. I find the elbow angle on the reverse, and the stray hair on top of head useful to hone in quickly on the likely die matches - yours look good to me. Here's my denarius of this type: [ATTACH=full]1162262[/ATTACH] [B]A. Postumius A.f. Sp.n. Albinus[/B], 81 BC, AR Serrate Denarius, Rome mint [B]Obv: [/B]Veiled head of Hispania right [B]Rev: [/B]Togate figure standing left, raising hand; aquila to left, fasces with axe to right [B]Ref:[/B] Crawford [URL='http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-372.2']372/2[/URL] with its Shaefer double die match from:[URL='http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/schaefer.rrdp.b05#schaefer_372-2_b05_p191-0']bk.5 p.191[/URL] [ATTACH=full]1162265[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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