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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SRSNUM, post: 5659978, member: 102988&quot;]Thank you Marsyas Mike for your response.&nbsp; Yes, I searched RPC online and found two examples with Severus Alexander obverses and year 6 reverses with 3 tied wheat ears from Cappadocia, Caesaria. </p><p><br /></p><p>My initial concern was that, as I was missing the first part of the obverse inscription, it might be possible that the coin originated from a different province and city. </p><p><br /></p><p>I examined the two coins from year 6 but still had concerns about the origin and posted my concern on CoinTalk.&nbsp; With prompting from your link, I went back to the year 6 examples and found that there are 4 ‘duplicates’ of the first illustration and 35 ‘duplicates’ for the second illustration.&nbsp; I was wrong to assume the other examples mentioned were duplicates. It turns out that the ‘duplicates’ are not duplicates, but, additional examples with somewhat different, grades, designs and/or inscriptions. </p><p><br /></p><p>For the first illustration, no matches for my coin are evident.&nbsp; For the second illustration among the 35 examples #14 caught my attention.&nbsp; After examining the reverse carefully, it appears to be a close match to the coin in hand.&nbsp; Since the coin’s reverse is such a close match to my own, I was confident now, that the CIH is from Cappadocia, Caesaria.&nbsp; I also examined the obverse and noted that the second part of the inscription closely matches the CHI with the exception of the last letter on my coin which is too worn to be certain. In addition, the #14 coin is also struck off-center as is the CIH.&nbsp; I now also have a good deal of confidence that the CHI was struck from the same die pair as RPC VI, 6831 (temporary) #14.&nbsp; The mystery is solved. Below, find images of # 14 to compare with the CIH.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks again Marsyas Mike for supplying the link that prompted me to re-examine the year 6 examples!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1242455[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1242459[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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