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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7943206, member: 19463&quot;]This is one of several &#039;odd&#039; coins from the Syrian mints or operations that captured enough of their style that I could accept them as official.&nbsp; Spelling is not a high point of these mints.&nbsp; I still believe in the concept of travelling mints that used a mix of staff and local talent.&nbsp; I will not live to see this one answered to my satisfaction.&nbsp; There is more about this material that is not known than we realized 10 or 50 years ago.&nbsp; It is easy to write off anything not understood as &#039;barbarous&#039; but harder to explain what we see in a manner that seems satisfactory. The coin needs to belong to someone who will preserve it until such a time that the series has been properly studied.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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