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<p>[QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 3639879, member: 97383"]I'm posting a well worn & light weight sestertius of Claudius, AD 41-50, with Spes on the reverse, & countermarked <b>NCAPR</b>, from the Richard Baker collection. I scored this coin earlier this year from a CNG auction. It is the same type as the coin posted by <b>jamesicus</b> & is pictured above my coin. According to Baker many coins with heavy wear were countermarked by Nero, because he struck only gold & silver coins for the first 8 to 10 years of his reign from the Rome Mint. To avoid a shortage of base metal coinage it was necessary to keep these coins in circulation as long as possible. The most likely translation of <b>NCAPR</b> is <i>Nero Claudius Augustus Probavit</i> (with the approval of Nero Claudius, the Augustus, to the people of Rome).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fjp29.org%2Fric09o.jpg&hash=7955c9bd3ae6aa4dfb3b9e31809a3c4d" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fjp29.org%2Fric09rs.jpg&hash=daf300124f89ffec1885637e4a11c4fd" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]976916[/ATTACH] </p><p>AE sestertius, 42 mm, 21.84 gm.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 3639879, member: 97383"]I'm posting a well worn & light weight sestertius of Claudius, AD 41-50, with Spes on the reverse, & countermarked [B]NCAPR[/B], from the Richard Baker collection. I scored this coin earlier this year from a CNG auction. It is the same type as the coin posted by [B]jamesicus[/B] & is pictured above my coin. According to Baker many coins with heavy wear were countermarked by Nero, because he struck only gold & silver coins for the first 8 to 10 years of his reign from the Rome Mint. To avoid a shortage of base metal coinage it was necessary to keep these coins in circulation as long as possible. The most likely translation of [B]NCAPR[/B] is [I]Nero Claudius Augustus Probavit[/I] (with the approval of Nero Claudius, the Augustus, to the people of Rome). [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fjp29.org%2Fric09o.jpg&hash=7955c9bd3ae6aa4dfb3b9e31809a3c4d[/IMG][IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fjp29.org%2Fric09rs.jpg&hash=daf300124f89ffec1885637e4a11c4fd[/IMG] [ATTACH=full]976916[/ATTACH] AE sestertius, 42 mm, 21.84 gm.[/QUOTE]
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