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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3376245, member: 44316&quot;]My page of Procopius examples:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/type7i.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/type7i.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/type7i.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Most have been found in the Balkans in the region formerly behind the Iron Curtain. In the 1980&#039;s an early 1990&#039;s there were far rarer than they are now. When the Iron Curtain came down and the west gained access to finds from that region, Procopius pieces flooded out and their prices plunged.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]895656[/ATTACH]</p><p>19 mm. 2.89 grams. 6:00.</p><p>mintmark:&nbsp; CONSdelta&lt;dot&gt;</p><p>&nbsp; RIC Constantinople 17a.</p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>This has a bold example of the object left on the exergual line, but that does not mean it is clear what that object is!</p><p><br /></p><p>I sympathize with [USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER] . Almost all Procopius pieces have serious problems of corrosion, flan chips, weak strikes, or flans too small. When RIC came out all the varieties were R2 or R3 (very rare or extremely rare). Now they are not rare, but it is perhaps still fair to say they are rare in excellent condition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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