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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4730274, member: 19463&quot;]I doubt my SAECVLLVM NOVVM started life with any better silver that the OP coin but what happens to a 20% coin in the process of bulial and retrieval can make some look more porous than others. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1158085[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Re: Marsyas Mike&#039;s coin: The B/D confusion is a common thing and even shows in details we might overlook. Notice on my example that the crossbar that made the D into a B is weaker than the rest of the letter.&nbsp; Your coin has a lot of sandy fill in the D so I would not guarantee that there never was a similar middle stroke.&nbsp; Here the &#039;purse&#039; looks to have a flat bottom.[ATTACH=full]1158083[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Below is my Gallienus with more B looking B and a purse with &#039;points&#039; on the bottom as is more usual for these purses.&nbsp; The old saying is that you can&#039;t make a silk purse out of a sow&#039;s ear but you most certainly could make a very soft and functional leather purse out of a goat udder (not ubber?).&nbsp; Whether or not you cut off the included teats would depend on your sense of style but I really doubt that people in the third century would find an anatomically correct purse nearly as strange as the 21st century fashionistas might.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1158088[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>See this aureus for a more detailed purse.&nbsp; It should be no great surprise that often gold coins have better detail.</p><p><a href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=200159" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=200159" rel="nofollow">https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=200159</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I was in college when I saw the movie &#039;Nevada Smith&#039; which according to the link below caused many of us (including me, I recall) to gasp in 1966.&nbsp; I wonder if any others here saw that movie before the pouch related cut as discussed in this link:</p><p><a href="https://forums.tcm.com/topic/51941-nevada-smith-has-been-cut/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forums.tcm.com/topic/51941-nevada-smith-has-been-cut/" rel="nofollow">https://forums.tcm.com/topic/51941-nevada-smith-has-been-cut/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It does rather point out that a goat-skin purse would be nothing unusual.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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