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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 7884605, member: 31620&quot;]Following on from [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER]&nbsp; &#039;s excellent, educational post. These reading issues impact on the IMP II and IMP VIII series leading to mis-attributions of</p><p><br /></p><p>IMP &amp; IMP I for IMP II</p><p>Doug has illustrated the IMP&nbsp; for IMP II I will add an example that could easily be placed as IMP I</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064ik_img~0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>IMP VI &amp; IMP VII for IMP VIII</p><p>Here an off-centre strike make the obverse die even more difficult to read without the die matches above</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064ia_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>An even more off-centre strike makes the reading impossible</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064nx_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>without a die match, which unfortunately doesn&#039;t clearly show all 3 Is</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1359939[/ATTACH] </p><p>Often the tight nature of the flan means one edge of the legend is missing. These appear to read IMP VII with the I we are interest in being supposed beneath the neck</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064gh_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064mc_img~0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>The BM example of this obverse both have fuller flans but neither is clear to me though undoubtedly all are IMP VIII</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1359940[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1359941[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Am I alone in coming to the conclusion that the same engraver is most likely to have produced both these obverse dies. The engraving style of the bust is so close......[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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