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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2447264, member: 19463&quot;]I believe TIF was right about Philomelium and I also believe I gave away the obverse when I suggested you look after the M IOV.&nbsp; The most clear letters on the coin is the Phi iota lambda iota found there.&nbsp; No one else sees this a Philip I?&nbsp; I agree that there is no specimen on CNG or acsearch but we really have to get over the expectation that every coin will be found in your common catalogs.&nbsp; Big dealers are not likely to have such low end coins in their high ends sales so you are less likely to find exact matches for minor denominations.&nbsp; You asked for comments:&nbsp; I see this as a nice enough coin.&nbsp; Who knows it might be as nice as any like it that survived.&nbsp; It could be the only one that survived but before we say that we should check the best available specialist reverences.&nbsp; best hope would be RPC online but volume VIII is not available yet.</p><p><a href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/advanced/?v=9&amp;i=&amp;l_type=l_type_city&amp;c_id-1=philomelium&amp;p=&amp;r=&amp;c_type=c_type_person&amp;person=&amp;reign=&amp;yf=&amp;yt=&amp;mn=&amp;pa=&amp;a=&amp;od_b=or&amp;od=&amp;oi=&amp;oi_ns=&amp;rd_b=or&amp;rd=&amp;ri=&amp;ri_ns=&amp;m=&amp;d=&amp;d2=&amp;w=&amp;w2=&amp;s=&amp;stype=advanced&amp;search=Search" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/advanced/?v=9&amp;i=&amp;l_type=l_type_city&amp;c_id-1=philomelium&amp;p=&amp;r=&amp;c_type=c_type_person&amp;person=&amp;reign=&amp;yf=&amp;yt=&amp;mn=&amp;pa=&amp;a=&amp;od_b=or&amp;od=&amp;oi=&amp;oi_ns=&amp;rd_b=or&amp;rd=&amp;ri=&amp;ri_ns=&amp;m=&amp;d=&amp;d2=&amp;w=&amp;w2=&amp;s=&amp;stype=advanced&amp;search=Search" rel="nofollow">http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/advanced/?v=9&amp;i=&amp;l_type=l_type_city&amp;c_id-1=philomelium&amp;p=&amp;r=&amp;c_type=c_type_person&amp;person=&amp;reign=&amp;yf=&amp;yt=&amp;mn=&amp;pa=&amp;a=&amp;od_b=or&amp;od=&amp;oi=&amp;oi_ns=&amp;rd_b=or&amp;rd=&amp;ri=&amp;ri_ns=&amp;m=&amp;d=&amp;d2=&amp;w=&amp;w2=&amp;s=&amp;stype=advanced&amp;search=Search</a></p><p>They have seven of the Decius version of the coin&nbsp; so it is not unreasonable to expect a Philip but that is a question for specialists.&nbsp; Perhaps it would be worth writing to whoever is working on RPC VIII.&nbsp; You might inquire of one of the authors of volume IX and see who might be interested in knowing the coin exists or find out that they have a crate of them in the back room (highly unlikely).&nbsp; Certainly there is a chance they will ignore you because you coin is in a volume no one cares about but you can try.&nbsp; Before you do any of that, get the best photo you can.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like she said...&nbsp; I know you think we are unreasonable but asking help with that scan is asking us to do this with mud on our glasses.&nbsp; You have seen the coin.&nbsp; We have not. Help us help you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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