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<p>[QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 4726897, member: 14873"]That coin looks fine to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am interested in this also. I do not know how authoritative this reference is ……………</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/research/monetary-history-of-the-world/roman-empire/chronology_-by_-emperor/2nd-civil-war-end-of-julio-claudian-era/marcus-cocceius-nerva-96-98ad/nerva-countermarks-on-roman-imperial-coinage/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/research/monetary-history-of-the-world/roman-empire/chronology_-by_-emperor/2nd-civil-war-end-of-julio-claudian-era/marcus-cocceius-nerva-96-98ad/nerva-countermarks-on-roman-imperial-coinage/" rel="nofollow">https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/research/monetary-history-of-the-world/roman-empire/chronology_-by_-emperor/2nd-civil-war-end-of-julio-claudian-era/marcus-cocceius-nerva-96-98ad/nerva-countermarks-on-roman-imperial-coinage/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>…………… it depicts a Nero Drusus Caesar sestertius with the NCAPR countermark positioned behind the head on a left facing portrait.</p><p>I wonder if the worker tasked with stamping the countermarks that day had just finished a batch of left facing portrait coins and then began stamping a batch of right facing portrait coins and absent-mindedly stamped the countermark on them in the same location? Of course, there is no way of determining that - I was just trying to imagine how the countermark on your coin ended up being in front of the portrait face.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course it just might have been a one-time mistake as you speculate.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have not encountered NCAPR ………“being most likely ‘Nerva Caesar Augustus Probavit” ……… before.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 4726897, member: 14873"]That coin looks fine to me. I am interested in this also. I do not know how authoritative this reference is …………… [URL]https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/research/monetary-history-of-the-world/roman-empire/chronology_-by_-emperor/2nd-civil-war-end-of-julio-claudian-era/marcus-cocceius-nerva-96-98ad/nerva-countermarks-on-roman-imperial-coinage/[/URL] …………… it depicts a Nero Drusus Caesar sestertius with the NCAPR countermark positioned behind the head on a left facing portrait. I wonder if the worker tasked with stamping the countermarks that day had just finished a batch of left facing portrait coins and then began stamping a batch of right facing portrait coins and absent-mindedly stamped the countermark on them in the same location? Of course, there is no way of determining that - I was just trying to imagine how the countermark on your coin ended up being in front of the portrait face. Of course it just might have been a one-time mistake as you speculate. I have not encountered NCAPR ………“being most likely ‘Nerva Caesar Augustus Probavit” ……… before.[/QUOTE]
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