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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2603808, member: 19463&quot;]I see this as a possibility.&nbsp; The reverse style is a tad more official looking that the obverse.&nbsp; Whether it is a stolen die or a better copy would be hard to prove. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The whole point of ancients is that there are no fully authoritative catalogs.&nbsp; Certainly there are books with a great deal of information and closer to complete than most but new things keep popping up which are of interest to only a minute number of specialists.&nbsp; A complete and authoritative ancient coin catalog would weigh a ton and be out of date before it left the bindery.&nbsp; All it takes is one shovel of dirt revealing one new find.&nbsp; Some periods have enough questionably barbarous coins that we have to address the question of which were from a known mint and which were made by an &#039;independent operation&#039;.&nbsp; This one is certainly barbarous but there are borderline coins of Magnentius and Decentius that will not meet complete agreement with all the specialists in the field. For that matter, I suspect we have some unofficial coins of many rulers that have slipped by because they are well done in the spirit of their day.&nbsp; Since all dies were hand cut, it is sometimes hard to be sure where to draw the line.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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