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Is It What It Claims To Be ?

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 Posted 02/23/2018  12:46 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add FVRIVS RVFVS to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I was thinking of sending it out for "authentication".
Unlike the other AE17 I purchased .....

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Which clearly reads BP****NIKOC

This one is open to some "interpretation" since there is no name clearly visible.

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Rather than have it "entombed" perhaps taking an informal poll might work just as well.
Perhaps better
The real problem I am having is finding coins for comparison !
So is it ? yes
Or isn't it ! no

Britannicus AE17 Aeolis Aegae
Obv BΡITANNIKOC KAICAΡ
Bare head Britannicus right
Rv AIΓAEΩN EΠI XAΛE-OY
Zeus standing left holding eagle and sceptre
17-8mm 4.42 grams
RPC I 2431
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 Posted 02/23/2018  1:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Kamnaskires to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It does appear there might be a "P" at 10:00, and a "B" at 2:00, the normal break between the P and B of KAICAP and BPETANNIKOC...

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Or am I imagining this?
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02/23/2018 1:24 pm
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 Posted 02/23/2018  2:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add FVRIVS RVFVS to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I tried searching to see if I could find anything similar that it could be.
Not very good at those types of searches
But I came up empty.
I see things but sometimes I see what I want to see
I prefer letting people decide for themselves
But I may send it out to the "experts"
We shall see ........
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 Posted 02/24/2018  11:36 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add travelcoin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
From the examples I've seen, I vote YES!

Example 1


Example 2

Athe one on wildwinds


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 Posted 02/24/2018  1:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Kamnaskires to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
For comparison here are 18 from ACSearch.info:

https://www.acsearch.info/search.ht...r=0&company=
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 Posted 02/24/2018  2:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add FVRIVS RVFVS to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Very tempting to believe it is a match

ACSEARCH
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Sellers pic
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I think I am satisfied

Many thanks
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 Posted 02/24/2018  2:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Kamnaskires to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

Quote:
Very tempting to believe it is a match


I've been overcome by that temptation.
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 Posted 02/24/2018  8:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add travelcoin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sleep well tonight RVFVS you have a match.
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 Posted 02/25/2018  12:46 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add FVRIVS RVFVS to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I get nightmares whenever I hear the wife rev up that infernal machine she calls a vacuum cleaner !
A real menace she is .......

For the first time in my life I am leaning toward having a coin slabbed !
For safety's sake !
Perhaps both coins

I assume if I send them together the schnook that does the attributions will get the hint
Hate to spend 50 clams to have some grad student doing piece work for CNG send it back as
"Unidentified Greek AE" !

Just have to hold my breath I suppose
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02/25/2018 12:47 am
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