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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3213864, member: 19463&quot;]OK, all those who got this &#039;joke&#039; hold up your hand.&nbsp; RSC lists this coin as the only one that comes in VI but that listing is copied from the Reka Devnia hoard which did not illustrate the coin and, as far as I know, recent scholars have not had access to the coins in Bulgaria to confirm the reading.&nbsp; There have been other coins listed as IMP VI but they turned out to be misreadings caused by the small flans and poor workmanship.&nbsp; I, personally, doubt that the RD coin (or any other coin) actually reads VI and also doubt that we will ever see any of the RD coins published or photographed again.&nbsp; I have to wonder how many of the 80,000 coins are still in their vaults.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This Laodicea denarius clearly reads IMP VI but the die is a duplicate of another coin (below) that is IMP VIII.&nbsp; We have to read with care and take care not to believe everything we read.</p><p>VI</p><p>[ATTACH=full]835268[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>VI-II with the last II on the other side of the bust point. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]835271[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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