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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 2439802, member: 75525&quot;]I (re)learned a couple of things when I bought a MVSA recently:</p><ul> <li>always take a list of what I have to a coin store</li> <li>there is an &quot;easy&quot; way to tell the MVSA coins apart</li> </ul><p>I was close to one of my favorite coin stores and decided to stop and see if they had any RR coins. Turns out they did - </p><p>[ATTACH]508190[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]508191[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Q. Pomponius Musa</b></p><p>Obverse - Head of Apollo, R; behind wreath</p><p>Reverse - Polyhymnia facing, wearing wreath; Q.POMPONI, R; MVUA, L</p><p>Rome, 66 BC</p><p>Cr 410/10a</p><p>Grueber 3617</p><p><br /></p><p>I did not have a list of my coins with me, but I figured since I only had one MVSA what is the chance this is the same as the one I have. After all, there are 10 types with several minor variations. With my luck...... about 100%</p><p>[ATTACH=full]508192[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]508193[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I like to confirm attributions, so I read the descriptions in Crawford &amp; found I have a difficult time telling the differences in some of the reverse characters. It is much easier to read the symbol behind Apollo. There are 10 types of symbol and they match the reverse character. Both of mine have wreaths. </p><p><br /></p><p>410/1 Q.POMPONI MVUA</p><p>410/2 Lyre key</p><p>410/3 Scroll</p><p>410/4 Scepter</p><p>410/5 Two flutes, crossed</p><p>410/6 Flower</p><p>410/7 Tortoise</p><p>410/8 Star</p><p>410/9 Sandal</p><p>410/10 Wreath</p><p><br /></p><p>Can we get one of each in this thread? Post yours.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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