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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1790413, member: 19463"]<span style="color: #ff0000">Update/retraction:</span></p><p>Looking again I am suspecting that the OP coin is not showing the asterisk/star following the SIS but is also what RIC calls a 'strange group of signs, apparently equivalent to numerals 1-5.' Between patina on yours and roughness on mine the exact match seems uncertain but I really believe they might be a match for the E=5 workshop squiggle. I that is right, your coin would be RIC 240 rather than the 231 which needs the less fancy dot. I apologize for my error but this shows that using RIC with the book in hand requires care, too. I'd like to see a really nice example with clear marking just to be sure. RIC has a small pen and ink drawing of the mark but no photo. acsearch has a couple from shop 4 with a different final symbol but no shop 5. </p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=151358" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=151358" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=151358</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1790413, member: 19463"][COLOR=#ff0000]Update/retraction:[/COLOR] Looking again I am suspecting that the OP coin is not showing the asterisk/star following the SIS but is also what RIC calls a 'strange group of signs, apparently equivalent to numerals 1-5.' Between patina on yours and roughness on mine the exact match seems uncertain but I really believe they might be a match for the E=5 workshop squiggle. I that is right, your coin would be RIC 240 rather than the 231 which needs the less fancy dot. I apologize for my error but this shows that using RIC with the book in hand requires care, too. I'd like to see a really nice example with clear marking just to be sure. RIC has a small pen and ink drawing of the mark but no photo. acsearch has a couple from shop 4 with a different final symbol but no shop 5. [url]http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=151358[/url][/QUOTE]
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