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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2274813, member: 74282&quot;]Doug,</p><p><br /></p><p>I enjoyed reading your page. I&#039;ll share a bit of what I know about these and some of the theories I have read about these. On your first coin(and on my new one), the monogram is &quot;ROMA&quot;. On a small number of dies, ROMA is spelled out fully in the area where the monogram is, and on a small subset of these, Apollo faces left. On the majority of dies, however, there is neither ROMA nor the monogram and Apollo faces right. One theory I have read is that this issue was initially planned to be a relatively small well-made issue with both right and left-facing Apollos and &quot;ROMA&quot; on all dies. As the social war began it became apparent that the issue would need to be mass produced, so first they began minting all with right-facing Apollos, then compacted ROMA into a monogram, then did away with it altogether. I&#039;ve also noticed that it seems the size of Apollo&#039;s head shrinks during this transition as well but I haven&#039;t taken the time to look at a large enough number of coins to see if this holds past the handful of examples I researched before purchasing this one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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