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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 8052155, member: 84744&quot;]I&#039;ll add to the growing consensus that it&#039;s an official eastern (&quot;Antioch&quot;) mint product.&nbsp; The obverse is too good for it to be otherwise IMO.</p><p><br /></p><p>This one from about the same time is perhaps a bit more borderline:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1394576[/ATTACH] </p><p>There&#039;s quite a bit of surface copper, although that&#039;s not unheard of on official issues (sometimes the strike didn&#039;t enrich the surface with enough silver).&nbsp; The obverse legend is quite severely blundered at the end (tiny D and A, missing VG), and there&#039;s a P missing from the end of the reverse legend.&nbsp; (The dating also doesn&#039;t make sense – SA was never TR P II and COS II simultaneously – but that&#039;s normal for the issue.)</p><p><br /></p><p>A couple of other examples on acsearch (out of 15 or so) seem to have poor metal, and another two have crowded legends, so I lean towards official.&nbsp; (Would welcome your opinion, [USER=89514]@curtislclay[/USER]!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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