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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 4775318, member: 44316&quot;]If you collect Lincoln cents no one would think a 1914-D and 1931 plain were duplicates, similar though they are. Here is an ancient-coin parallel.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin came recently (from our member [USER=10613]@Victor_Clark[/USER] ). Some of you might call a duplicate when you see the others I have:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1162589[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Constantius, Caesar of the First Tetrarchy 293-305 and Augustus of the Second Tetrarchy 305-306.</p><p>27 mm. 9.35 grams.</p><p>CONSTANTIVS NOBIL C, laureate, cuirassed bust right.</p><p>GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius standing left with patera and cornucopia</p><p>&nbsp; S&nbsp; F&nbsp; &nbsp; left and right fields.</p><p>&nbsp; PTR&nbsp;&nbsp; in exergue.</p><p>RIC VI Trier 594a, struck as Caesar c. 303- 1 May 305.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why might someone call it a duplicate? Well, look here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/Constantiusfolles.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/Constantiusfolles.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/Constantiusfolles.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>To me, the portraits are different at different mints, and different obverse legends and bust varieties are interesting too. In this very common series, it doesn&#039;t take much to make me think a nice coin is <b>not</b> a duplicate. </p><p><br /></p><p>Show us a coin of this type or show us some coins that others might regard as duplicates that are not duplicates to you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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