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Message:: [QUOTE="ancientcoinguru, post: 2340872, member: 75563"]Love the photo from your Sunday paper....describes exactly how I feel when trying to read Crawford! But to answer your question.  I think the tiny photos in Crawford are not use useful when trying to distinguish between these issues, so I went to his text on pages 102-104.  If I understand the text correctly, the easiest way to tell the difference between these 3 coins by looking at the reverse.  <blockquote>28/4 Victory is standing in chariot with incuse legend</blockquote> <blockquote>29/4 Victory is standing in chariot, but legend is in relief placed on a tablet shaped like an inverted trapeze</blockquote> <blockquote>30/2 Victory is standing on the tailboard, not the chariot (the whole of her figure is visible) with inches legend</blockquote> On your coin, the legend ROMA appears to be raised, which would eliminate 29/4 (your tablet appears to be sunken, so maybe that is what caused someone to catalog this as 29/4?).   Hard to tell if Victory is standing in the chariot or the tailboard, but not all of her figure is visible....so I would eliminate 30/2.  And thus conclude 28/4.  What do you think?  [/QUOTE]