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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eric Kondratieff, post: 2436541, member: 78618&quot;][USER=76111]@Carthago[/USER]: if you look VERY closely at the Octavian in quadriga / Victory on prow, you will see that the legend on the obverse is &quot;CAESAR DIVI F.&quot; There is only one known die from this series with that legend and image, and maybe a handful of coins outside of museums; all the rest say &quot;IMP CAESAR&quot; on them, and as you know, there are lots of those about. In any case, this coin type is THE &quot;transitional&quot; coin between Octavian&#039;s CAESAR DIVI F and IMP CAESAR series.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, does anyone care about such things? I bought it from a CNG auction, where it was misidentified as a common IMP CAESAR type, for a pittance (relatively speaking, and based on Sears&#039; valuation of the type); but it was in the Manhattan 4 sale, and no one bid on it. Just as well, actually...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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