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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2627821, member: 74282&quot;]I wrote Richard Schaefer about this coin to inquire whether he had any other examples with this helmet type in his Republican Die Project. He asked for a few days to update his records and scan things in and contacted me mid-day yesterday with the results. His research found that this &quot;thick&quot; helmet type appears only on the quadrans and only on a single die, with all other known dies of the series(including the other dies of this denomination) exhibiting the &quot;thin&quot; helmet. Multiple examples from my reverse die were found, eliminating the possiblity that it is the result of alteration or overstriking, so I&#039;m not quite sure what to make of this finding. The only possibility I can come up with is that the helmet started out as another symbol(&quot;MAT&quot; monogram almost fits) or maybe the engraver tried to cut some other type of helmet and then recut the symbol when his mistake was realized. More study is certainly needed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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