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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1717103, member: 19463&quot;]This is a great type that should sell for a premium IMHO but the CNG listing at $47 is really sad IMHO.&nbsp; The coin was issued shortly after the &quot;Miracle of the Rain&quot; in which Mercury saved the Roman army.&nbsp; Information on this is harder to find because there is an old movie &#039;Miracle in the Rain&#039; which comes up when you search without quotes.&nbsp; The type is very ordinary compared to the representation on a column of Marcus erected for the purpose but the coin is still a rare example of a type easily linked to history.&nbsp; The denarii are more common.</p><p><a href="http://www.livius.org/le-lh/legio/rain.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.livius.org/le-lh/legio/rain.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.livius.org/le-lh/legio/rain.html</a></p><p><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=3Lbx1TPIAbQC&amp;pg=PA1&amp;source=gbs_toc_r&amp;cad=4#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://books.google.com/books?id=3Lbx1TPIAbQC&amp;pg=PA1&amp;source=gbs_toc_r&amp;cad=4#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books?id=3Lbx1TPIAbQC&amp;pg=PA1&amp;source=gbs_toc_r&amp;cad=4#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]265278.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a few dupondii without radiate crowns (mostly first century and most common for Vespasian) and Trajan has some provincial asses with radiate crowns (but the coins are smaller than copper asses and larger than the semisses of the same issue).&nbsp; Otherwise, the sight of a radiate crown should make you think &#039;double&#039; denomination.&nbsp; The ones that get hard are coins of women who don&#039;t wear radiate crowns at all or crescents as often as we would like.&nbsp; When new, dupondii should be yellow and asses should be red until the metals merged in the third century making a few coins that really are hard to tell.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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