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Message:: [QUOTE="Orfew, post: 3630647, member: 74968"]Once again [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] you have hit the nail on the head. Yes, Minerva denarii for Domitian are often misattributed because of the very small differences that separate the types. (This can drive some crazy, but I quite enjoy spending a few hours tracking these down) Of course I checked Acsearch for my coin. I saw several examples. However, where the image search was well worth it was where after my search it put 2 examples one on top of the other. Sounds like a small thing but it is not. By comparing the 2 coins I was not only able to confirm that they were the same coin, but I also found out something interesting about my coin. The second image, the one from Rauch was only a 39% match. I soon found out why. It runs out that while the obverse was not touched, the reverse was cleaned slightly. This cleaning changed the look of the reverse and led to a lower percentage match. There is another reason why I like this image search. It turns out that my coin was lot 464 in the Rauch 2009 auction. Lot 465 was another example of the same coin. Lot 465 did not appear in the image search because it is from different dies. In short, though my searches mostly turned up previous sales I already knew about, the image search led me to find out something new about my coin. [ATTACH=full]973768[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]