Thank you VERY much for your prompt and candid response! I have come several years from this purchase, gained several friends that
help me, and have done a lot of research since then. I have several other
Republican denarii, of which I
had not really looked at this one in a long while. Suffice to say, I DOES look different from the others, and when asked to really view the edge, it was glaring even to my untrained eyes. Lesson learned! However, I will probably keep this
denarius as a
standard of measure to review other
denarii (among a lot of other research). Thanks again!