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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2720980, member: 10461&quot;][USER=80783]@Julius Germanicus[/USER] - I&#039;m glad you got your money back!</p><p><br /></p><p>That coin worried me very much, even before its identical dopplegangers started turning up.&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t really define <i>why</i> it bothered me, but it did.&nbsp; Just the name Pertinax alone, so clearly visible there on the coin, got my hackles up.&nbsp; Had it been another emperor portrayed on a coin with similar characteristics, I likely wouldn&#039;t have been suspicious at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>For a US coin comparison, I guess it&#039;s like seeing a 1916-D Mercury dime or a 1909-S VDB Lincoln cent: one has to immediately be much more suspicious of a &quot;key&quot; date.&nbsp; I have a similar flinch-reflex for certain scarce Roman emperors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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