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<p>[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 3221880, member: 80804"]Writing reference numbers on coins with ink or paint was the standard operating procedure in many museums for the last few centuries before the latter part of the 21st. It's interesting that this has a museum number on it - it must have been part of a museum collection at some point.</p><p>It is far less worn than most Roman coins found on the Indian sub-continent or eastern Asia. I'd make a guess (but not a bet) that this was lost from a collection (public or private) or de-acquisitioned by a museum within the last century or so.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 3221880, member: 80804"]Writing reference numbers on coins with ink or paint was the standard operating procedure in many museums for the last few centuries before the latter part of the 21st. It's interesting that this has a museum number on it - it must have been part of a museum collection at some point. It is far less worn than most Roman coins found on the Indian sub-continent or eastern Asia. I'd make a guess (but not a bet) that this was lost from a collection (public or private) or de-acquisitioned by a museum within the last century or so.[/QUOTE]
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