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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 4524459, member: 82549&quot;]Thanks. Glad you like it.</p><p>Some of the letters of the obverse inscription are interesting, too. The T in ANTONINVS has extended serifs. It looks like it might be a cracked die.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1120957[/ATTACH]</p><p>Same with the S. If is was a crack, it extended upward from the lower serif but in both directions from the upper serif.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1120958[/ATTACH]</p><p>There&#039;s also some weirdness with the IVS in PIVS. The S looks like it was smashed after the coin was minted. But the blobs on the I and V look like they were part of the die.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1120959[/ATTACH]</p><p>These are just my theories. I know there are many people on this list who are much more knowledgeable about this sort of thing than I am. Any thoughts? Does it seem unusual that the portrait came out so well when the die appears to be pretty stressed, with cracks and flaws?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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