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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 7329607, member: 31620&quot;]Hi Curtis,</p><p>I do indeed have a standard SEV IMP VIII, BONA SPES. It is far from ideal but is good enough.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1280479[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It appears to be from different dies to the BM (ex Roger Bickford-Smith_ example (illustrated below for comparison).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1280481[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I only have 11 examples of the SEVER IMP VIII series and some of those are die linked.</p><p><br /></p><p>BONA SPES, Spes standing holding flower and lifting skirt (illustrated above)</p><p>FORTA EDVC or FORT REDVC (R corrected from A?), Fortuna seated left holding rudder and cornucopia</p><p>INVICTO IMP, Trophy with arms below</p><p>LIB-ER AVG, Liberalitas seated left, holding abacus in right hand, cornucopiae in left</p><p>MINER VICTRIC, Minerva standing left, holding sceptre, resting right hand on shield</p><p>MONET AVG, Moneta standing left, holding scales and cornucopiae (2 examples - different dies)</p><p>VICTOR AVG, Victoria standing right, left foot on globe?, holding shield with left hand, resting on knee, inscribing with right hand (2 examples same reverse die)</p><p>VIRTVT-I AVG, Mars walking right holding spear and trophy (2 examples same reverse die)</p><p><br /></p><p>I will see of there is anything I can make out with regards to the double struck coin but cannot be sure either way at present.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regards,</p><p>Martin[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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