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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2594046, member: 19463&quot;]OK it gets worse.&nbsp; The linked sale from Freeman and Sear 1 lot 340 says the obverse die was used with a sestertius reading PIETAS AVGG SC but the coin they photograph actually reads PIETAS with the same high C in SC and the same figure.&nbsp; I have no idea where they got Pudicitia. The ETA of PIETAS is rather clear and there is no way you can fit Pudicitia in that space.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m tending now to both coins smelling to high heaven but I do not know.&nbsp; I do not know when David Sear stopped having active connection with the firm bearing his name but the coin in that photo is not the coin described.&nbsp; It is almost like someone too a poor example of the coin and tooled it to match the erroneous description in that sale. That could win the prize for the dumbest thing said on Coin Talk in 2016 but I can&#039;t see a better answer.&nbsp; I would love to see what Sear or NGC (Vagi/Murphy) would say about the coin.&nbsp; The answer could make the difference between a $2000 coin and a $20 one.&nbsp; I offer $20.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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