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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 6659399, member: 110350&quot;]These are great, [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER]. It&#039;s wonderful that you have examples of all three subtypes; I&#039;ve never seen an example of 378/1b before. Odd that they changed that format after using it for so few dies/control-numbers, only XXVI through XXXII (which adds up to seven rather than six, I think). I wonder if the reason for the change could have been something as simple as the placement of the control-symbol in the exergue on the reverse, beneath the S·C, resulting in the symbol being wholly or partially off the flan much of the time, as on yours.</p><p><br /></p><p>You write that the control-symbol on your third example is unidentified, but Crawford identifies it as a finger-ring (see Table XXXIII at p. 395): for those who aren&#039;t aware, the upside-town T is simply a somewhat archaic way of writing an L, for 50, so the control-number for your coin is actually LXXXXVIII, or 98 (XCVIII as it would now be written). If that&#039;s a ring, it certainly has a gigantic stone in it![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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