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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 2167776, member: 56653&quot;]Your coin is no doubt Procopius with SECVRITAS REIPVB reverse. They used to be very rare, unlisted in both RIC and Cohen but nowadays downgrade to about scarce to at best rare in better condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>Curtis Clay notes on this type: &quot;Though not in Cohen or RIC, specimens of this coin have been emerging in recent years: the first published in 1977, one in BM, one in the current Berk catalogue 142, lot 345, and now these two. [noted in feb. 2005, at least 10 others known from then on.] See commentary to Berk coin below, which I wrote in ignorance of the Wildwinds specimen, which is incidentally from a new officina, delta or A rather than E.</p><p><br /></p><p>The very rare earliest issue of Procopius&#039; bronze coinage, not only continuing Valentinian&#039;s reduced weight standard and copying his right-facing portrait, but also taking over Valentinian&#039;s reverse legend SECVRITAS REIPVB, combined with Procopius&#039; normal type of emperor standing.&nbsp; Only two specimens of this coin seem to have been recorded until now:&nbsp; that published by W. Weiser in Money trend 1977, pp. 8-12, which was later sold in Schulten Sale, October 1984, 771; and a second in BM mentioned by Weiser.&nbsp; Our specimen may be the third recorded.&nbsp; Very soon, Procopius introduced his own reverse legend, REPARATIO FEL TEMP, to replace that of Valentinian; soon after that, he reintoduced Julian II&#039;s heavier standard for bronze coins and changed the direction of his obverse portrait from right to left.&nbsp; Most of Procopius&#039; surviving bronze coins belong to this large last issue, on Julian II&#039;s standard and with portrait facing left.&quot; (<a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=16416.0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=16416.0" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=16416.0</a>)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]418106[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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