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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3222352, member: 19463&quot;]Among the coins I bought in Baltimore was this rather ordinary 1st century BC AE22 of Elaiussa in Cilicia.&nbsp; Many Greek bronzes have Zeus and Nike but the reason I bought this one was the centering.&nbsp; The reverse is perfectly off center.&nbsp; Many magistrates of this series were distinguished by a name written vertically or a monogram on the left side of the coin but here Dio wrote horizontally.&nbsp; Many of these show Nike&#039;s arm extended through the city name holding the wreath to the far left.&nbsp; This one has the wreath small and crowded between her body and the city name.&nbsp; This layout coupled with the long city name led to many coins like this Triton V specimen with letter loss due to good centering.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=15723" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=15723" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=15723</a></p><p><img src="https://www.cngcoins.com/photos/big/590513.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>My coin shoved the Nike far to the right placing the long city name in the middle where both ends would fit and allow space at the left for magistrate Dio on the flan.&nbsp; This coin makes it obvious why so many other magistrates dies used vertical letters of a monogram.&nbsp; Get with the program Dio!&nbsp; The Triton V coin was beautiful and sold for over 7 times what I paid for mine.&nbsp; I like mine mostly for the way it is so perfectly off center.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]839246[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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