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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3007236, member: 19463&quot;]A tip:&nbsp; The letter omicron was often made more like a dot than an open circle and often preceded a V in a word we would not used the leading o.&nbsp; For example:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]745273[/ATTACH]</p><p>The above Valerian I is not the same as the OP coin but it shows the beginning AK common to many rulers (so ignore it here) followed by Π ΛΙ οVΑΛEPIANOC for Publius Licinius Valerianus.&nbsp;&nbsp; The OP coin has AK (ignore) followed by a hard to read letter and oVA.&nbsp; After that is &#039;meat&#039; you seek to name the ruler.&nbsp; Who had a family name starting with VA and a praenomen that might possibly be that hard to read bump?&nbsp; It is all given away by the letter following the oVA but telling that would be giving it away.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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