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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2399655, member: 19463&quot;]I see nothing wrong with the coin.&nbsp; Be happy with it.&nbsp; It was cleaned acceptably as is the best we can hope for on ancients.&nbsp; The shield on the reverse shows the S and R of SPQR which is better than some.&nbsp; Compare to the one below which has more legend but less SPQR.&nbsp; There are several variations on the obverse legend but I suspect your matched mine originally.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]494230[/ATTACH]</p><p>Also compare to this one on acsearch which gives catalog numbers (I did not check to see if they are correct because I do not have those volumes and do not believe it appropriate to derive numbers from secondary sources). </p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2406559" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2406559" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2406559</a></p><p>The acsearch coin is listed as nearly EF which I find hilarious considering the lack of SPQR on it but they do acknowledge light smoothing which is pretty standard for coins like this.&nbsp; I suspect many people would have recut the SPQR on it making it really look EF but then it would be tooled and untouchable to most of us.&nbsp; Now look at this one with bold SPQR graded Good VF pointing out the reason that grading ancients is a matter of opinion rather than fact and why many of us don&#039;t bother with letter grades on our coins either.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2529443" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2529443" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2529443</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If you search acsearch or other sources you will find other legends and other mints for this reverse.&nbsp; Nero specialists may want them all. </p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=nero+victory&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=0&amp;company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=nero+victory&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=0&amp;company=" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=nero+victory&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=0&amp;company=</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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