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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4939641, member: 19463&quot;]Just as a hint:&nbsp; The placement and abbreviation of the city name on these varies a lot.&nbsp; On many the ΠΡΟC I is more likely to survive than the first part of the name but is still enough to ID the city.&nbsp; Often the legend finishes in the field with letters stacked in many ways. Your &quot;CΤΡ-ΟN&quot; across the field would be plenty even if the encircling legend were totally gone. The most common city we see other than Nikopolis is Marcianopolis which does not have a ΠΡΟC allowing that possibility to be eliminated on poor coins.&nbsp; Later, under Gordian III, they got very &#039;creative&#039; with the way they stacked the end of the legend. Below, as the end approached the cutter made ligate pairs out of ΩΝ and ΠΡ, did the o normally, placed a tiny c in exergue and stacked the ICTPON neatly in left field. I could not resist this coin for that reason alone.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1187318[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1187318[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Paying too much is part of the hobby.&nbsp; What we need to avoid is making a habit out of paying too much and getting nothing worth having. Without the roughness, this would have been a very nice coin.&nbsp; I am very, very hard on surface roughness and avoid such coins more than those with wear.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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