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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2641454, member: 19463&quot;]This strikes me as a good example of a potential problem with an online and searchable database.&nbsp; I love the new RIC site Seth and Victor linked but in this case you have to select the legend with or without a dot to find the coin in question.&nbsp; A hardcopy book is easier for flipping through and seeing the options.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The KA with no officina letter and style made me think Tripolis but I&#039;m no expert in these.&nbsp; The Serdica Victor linked has style I expect from that mint and the listing mentions that the lack of officina probably means the coin was from the very first period of production (before they decided they needed officinae letters???).&nbsp; To my lack of expertise, this can be read as &quot;I don&#039;t know&quot;.&nbsp; Experts don&#039;t like those words but they don&#039;t bother me. </p><p><br /></p><p>In any event, this is a nice coin.&nbsp; I&#039;d upload it to the site and see what they have to say about it.&nbsp; They seem to appreciate coin they did not have and tolerate things that we amateurs might have found confusing.&nbsp; In this case, I believe their search engine needs to handle coins with dots missing more gracefully.&nbsp; Not all coins are in good enough condition or well enough centered that it will be obvious whether a dot is or is not there.&nbsp; Heaven knows that site has enough photos of coins not clear enough to be obvious down to the last dot but, to be a useful resource, a new book needs to have, at least, footnotes that will warn users that they need to be aware of the dot problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]582807[/ATTACH] </p><p>My example above shows&nbsp; a SOLI INVICTO&nbsp;&nbsp; * KA&nbsp; but there is a dot after the INVICTO (faint and half way to the KA).&nbsp; The pull down lists this legend for both dotted and dotless versions but I failed to find the coin in their listings either way.&nbsp; I do not know if this is a different coin or if the combination of their software and my inabilities conspired to make it not turn up.&nbsp; Anyone who is &#039;up&#039; on Aurelian and would like to clear this up for me - please do.&nbsp; (I bought the coin for a feature not relating to the dot and listed it as Tripolis in my catalog. Correct?)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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