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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2841880, member: 19463&quot;]Just to show that someone at the mint had a sense of humor, this Caesarea didrachm of Commodus has TPI at reverse bottom tempting collectors to call this coin a tridrachm but if you read the entire legend you will see the legend at the right ends with PAT PA so the TRI completes the Greek version of Pater Patriae.&nbsp; Don&#039;t let the foolers fool. </p><p><br /></p><p>There is another version of this coin where the T was moved to the right side and the RI filled out to read PATRIDOS.&nbsp; I wonder if there were jokers in antiquity who were passing didrachms as tridrachms leading to this change.&nbsp; Whatever the reasoning the spacing that placed TRI by itself in the legend was just asking for trouble.&nbsp; Coins we now call tridrachms seem to weigh twice as much as these didrachms.&nbsp; I can&#039;t explain that either.&nbsp; Anyone care to make this clear?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]672539[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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