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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2025546, member: 19463"]One more: Some errors are just variations on the normal. This coin left three letters out of the obverse legend but each was the last letter in a word so it seems that the intent was to shorten the legend. </p><p>IMP CA_ L SE_ SEV PER_ AVG COS II</p><p>I'm less prepared to excuse the economy on the reverse where the top of the T was left off so it reads VICI AVG. Do we have a two sided error here or just evidence of a branch, branch mint - just a tad barbarous??? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]367686[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2025546, member: 19463"]One more: Some errors are just variations on the normal. This coin left three letters out of the obverse legend but each was the last letter in a word so it seems that the intent was to shorten the legend. IMP CA_ L SE_ SEV PER_ AVG COS II I'm less prepared to excuse the economy on the reverse where the top of the T was left off so it reads VICI AVG. Do we have a two sided error here or just evidence of a branch, branch mint - just a tad barbarous??? [ATTACH=full]367686[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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