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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3116288, member: 19463"]It does not fit in any of the official mint descriptions as usually described. The metal is too poor for the date. I would call it uofficial but not barbarous. I have a few including one enough like it to make me suspect it is a die duplicate. Does it read AVGVST or AVGVIIP??? </p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/wild.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/wild.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/wild.html</a></p><p>I would not call the silver fine but they are not plated. There are many solid/billon silver Septimius coins that do not fit the usual mints. My example was given to me by the late Septimius scholar Roger Bickford-Smith who did not study barbarous and gave me some knowing I found them interesting. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]791923[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3116288, member: 19463"]It does not fit in any of the official mint descriptions as usually described. The metal is too poor for the date. I would call it uofficial but not barbarous. I have a few including one enough like it to make me suspect it is a die duplicate. Does it read AVGVST or AVGVIIP??? [url]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/wild.html[/url] I would not call the silver fine but they are not plated. There are many solid/billon silver Septimius coins that do not fit the usual mints. My example was given to me by the late Septimius scholar Roger Bickford-Smith who did not study barbarous and gave me some knowing I found them interesting. [ATTACH=full]791923[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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