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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2242274, member: 19463&quot;]If you choose, you can see the tiny marks under the bust of the stars coin as II but my Mars is pretty clean.&nbsp; To answer the question we need more coins in better condition. To me, the die is very early and looks funny displayed with a bunch of &#039;normal&#039; COSII coins.&nbsp; I do not accept the PEPT of this die and of the COSI die as completely coincidental but I do not propose that the letter was intentionally cut P either.&nbsp; Similarly, the S&#039;s tend to look like C&#039;s recut as a correction bother here and on the COS I die.&nbsp; They must be the same hand (a concept Curtis consistently dismisses).&nbsp; </p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/micro3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]442472[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]442473[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>It will be interesting if a sequence of the Fortunas can be developed but the Pietas style does seem to show up with more than its share of earlier styles.&nbsp; They are not, however the earliest so the use of that die with a very failing obverse makes me want to date the coin in the earliest part of 194.&nbsp; I would like to see that obverse turn up with an IICOS reverse but we have what we have. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]442474[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]442475[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I remain of the opinion that several of&nbsp; these obverse variations were in use at the mint in the same weeks.&nbsp; We have so many links that cross over that I am sticking to my opinion that the dies were secured nightly with obverses and reverses separated and randomly reassigned the next day.&nbsp; Unless there was an intentional plan to use as many die combinations as possible, this is the only hypothesis I see working.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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