Put me out of my misery, please.

[mwilson603]

Hi all,

I cleaned this coin a while ago.  It was found by a man I knew along with some great URBS ROMA and others.  I have had this coin for a while now and whilst I always thought it was a very pretty coin, great Green and mainly silvered, I never really tried to identify it until this week.

I am stuck.

I believe that the Obv Legend says CRISPUS on the left, and I have tried and never really succeeded at the right hand part.  It could start with an "N" but it is quite worn and difficulkt to be sure.  The obverse looks like a standard VLPP with mint mark of PLN.  Now I cannot find any refernce to a VLPP from Crispus, from the London mint unless the Obv Legend starts FL IVL.  Blatantly I am either really misreading it, or this is NOT Crispus.

Any help appreciated,

regards

Mark

[Robert_Brenchley]

The pic is on the small side, but possibly RIC 179, R4, with the obverse legend CRISPV-S NOB CAES. Does that work?

[mwilson603]

Looks like it might be 

I have attached a larger pic in black and white for your opinion.

regards

Mark

[mwilson603]

 
It can't be, there is no legend break in CRISPVS, unless I am reading it completely wrong

[Robert_Brenchley]

Possibly an unrecorded legend break?

[mwilson603]

hmmm

I like the sound of it as that almost certainly makes it rarer. 

It seems to have a legend mix of RIC VII 179 and 178, i.e. CRISPV-S NOB CAES and CRISPVS-NOB CAESAR.  The former appears to have the right number of letters and the latter the right legend break