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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Moe &quot;Wolfy&quot; Wilder, post: 24680695, member: 114824&quot;]Thanks for weighing in Ras. I don&#039;t know if you remember me but I was a newbie on Ancient Peddlers back before you started working on ERIC. I clearly understand what you are trying to say, but your assumptions are wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is complicated. I have to tell you for certain, it was not Theo II. It said DNROMVLVSAV. and I still clearly see the VLVS. It looks very much like this coin (especially the legend), <a href="https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/romulus_augustus/RIC_3411.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/romulus_augustus/RIC_3411.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/romulus_augustus/RIC_3411.jpg</a>&nbsp; however, it is a little smaller and a little lighter. I read that there is contemporary documentation regarding dies for bronze coins to be struck in Rome for RA, but that it was late in his reign, and they were<u> probably </u>never used. The book did not say what those dies looked like. At this point, until I know for sure what those dies looked lke, I am leaning toward the idea that I have a copper core of a fouree or counterfeit tremissis. It is currently the most logical attribution.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding countermarks on LRBs. I have only recently started seeing them just every once in awhile. The face of this RA was almost completely wiped out by rectangular strikes, which flattened most of the reverse. They only barely missed the legend, as well as the back and top of the head (in the shape of an upside down L). I read every resource I can lay my hands on, so I KNOW already there is no documentation backing this up, but I&#039;m not going to say I don&#039;t know what I am seeing, when I see perfectly rectangular boxes on the face of the coin and tiny letters AVG or CAESAR in the boxes, repeated side by side and end to end. I don&#039;t now why they would countermark LRBs, but occassionally they are there. Perhaps in this case it was to obliterate the false tremissis and/or so people could tell there was copper under the gold? I also have a Fausta with a mark on her mouth and another on her neck, perhaps Damnatio Memoria? The countermarks (and whether you believe they are truly countermarks or not) are beside the point, but I&#039;m going to risk ridicule again and show you pics of the Fausta. CAESAR on mouth (because she lied), and AVG on the neck (because she died).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Moe[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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