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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2891787, member: 19463&quot;]I am unclear on exactly how we are to rule out or rule as fact whether a coin is barbarous.&nbsp; Certainly there are coins that fit a pattern of an official mint and &#039;must&#039; be official and those so variant that they can not be explained away as a bad day at the mint but there are many coins in that gray area between the two.&nbsp; I find those most fascinating.&nbsp; Whether we see these oddities one way or the other can have a lot to do with how many coins of the proposed official mint we have experienced and how far from some definition of &#039;normal&#039; we can allow a coin to stray before we feel it obviously barbarous. To people whose sole experience has been Rome mint coins, all branch mint coins seem barbarous.&nbsp; To those who have handled hundreds/thousands of the branch mint coins the definitions may be different. My experience in the matter is hardly enough to mean anything in any area save the Eastern Severans but my collection includes coins I would really like to have seen struck so I could be certain of their status. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a few I feel have some slight to moderate departures from normal.&nbsp; I accept about half as regular and half as &#039;strange&#039;.&nbsp; A couple are certain &#039;to me&#039; but further evidence could change that.&nbsp; I could tell you my thoughts on each but some of those thoughts may change tomorrow and a few have changed in the past at least once.&nbsp; I am less certain about everything with each passing day.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]695239[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]695240[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]695241[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]695244[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]695245[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]695246[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]695247[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]695249[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]695251[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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