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Message:: [QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 8285353, member: 84744"]I see what you're saying here, and you could be right.  On the other hand, I think we see the sort of depression around "NON" happen naturally too, on bronze, whether from corrosion or strike or some combination of the two.  Looking through the RPC specimens, it seems quite common on this type, e.g.:[ATTACH=full]1463704[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1463705[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1463706[/ATTACH] This last example clearly shows smoothing like the OP.  I think the natural depression + smoothing explains its appearance. The overall pattern of wear on the coin (very little!) seems perfectly OK to me.  Look at the crisp strike on the bottom legend, for example.  The strike is a little less perfect as you move up the coin. I'm less sure what to make of the apparent gouges inside the extreme left and right columns.  I don't think the effect is to enhance detail, especially on the left one - the gouge is in open space not even abutting the column.  Still, could be tooling.  There could also be a little tooling at the top of the first "N" in "NON" and at the bottom right of the temple.  We'd have to see a die match to be sure.  I couldn't find a die match, but I wasn't looking that carefully. I still think it's a nice coin by the standards of Roman Provincials.  I feel I should also point out that most of our standards for our own collections are very much lower than those of [USER=39084]@IdesOfMarch01[/USER], whose collection is truly superb! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]

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