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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1266464, member: 19463&quot;]Nice picture.&nbsp; I prefer the lower one. I always liked this type with the OR doing double duty as the last two letters of Restitutor and the beginning of Orbis.&nbsp; Yours has the space between the two letters while mine placed them together leaving BIS by itself.&nbsp; Romans showed little care for where they broke words.&nbsp; There was a time I bought every workshop 9 coin I found.&nbsp; I still think it is a neat story.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/probus.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/probus.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/probus.html</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; 3rd from last photo</p><p><br /></p><p>These two coins bring up another point.&nbsp; Your coin has better looking even and smooth surfaces.&nbsp; Mine is not rough but is hard to photograph and looks raggedy because it still has a lot of the original silvering.&nbsp; Often high grade coins of this period are made ugly by patchy, partial silvering.&nbsp; I am not suggesting that it should be removed on a coin like mine but the best looking examples of coins of this period have lost either all or none of the silver.&nbsp; Half way is not so good.</p><p>[ATTACH]137779.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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