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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2054793, member: 19463&quot;]By the time of Leo, quality control at the mint was bad enough that many coins that survive do not have all the details needed to be 100% certain of the RIC number.&nbsp; Experienced collectors (not I) make better guesses on some than guys like me.&nbsp; Sometimes we get lucky and get a letter of the mintmark that gives it away (top); sometimes it is a guess by style or we just have to be happy saying it is Leo from a mint to be named later if we get good at it. [ATTACH=full]378042[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]378043[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes we get lucky and the mintmark is gone but there is another clue like the one below from Constantinople which used a lambda for the L in Leo on some coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; These are neat coins for people who like to chase mysteries.&nbsp; They are not good for condition oriented collectors.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]378044[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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