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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2969290, member: 19463&quot;]I was wrong about the second coin.&nbsp; It is Saloninus with legend starting&nbsp; SAL as on this one from acsearch:</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=65187" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=65187" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=65187</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Eyes can play tricks when there is corrosion involved.&nbsp; The tip here that showed my error was the reverse for Saloninus used a standard held by the Prince PRINC IVVENT while all the ones for Valerian II I saw had a staff.&nbsp; That made me look again at the letters before VALERIAN and now I saw the SAL that eluded me before.&nbsp; I apologize to Bing and his coin.&nbsp; It is wrong to call a kid by his brother&#039;s name.</p><p><br /></p><p>For new collectors:&nbsp; I know we all tend to buy lower priced &#039;bargain&#039; coins but it really is better to look for examples that have the major ID points clear and have the confusion located where there is only one choice.&nbsp; In many cases that means having clear legends at the left and not so much at the right where there are titles and name endings like NVS CS that might go either way.&nbsp; Even the nicer acsearch coin linked above is weak on the SAL.&nbsp; Compare it to the below Valerian II with PCLVALERIANVSNOBCAES.</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=48995" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=48995" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=48995</a></p><p>It has a weak strike that wipes out the reverse figure&#039;s upper body but those legends sure make ID easy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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