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No, Sorry (mostly to everyone else), but I needed all of this! ...In other words, Seth77, there was the same kind of dialectic (a little like a three-dimensional chess game) between (...dang; English, with all its pretensions, is a primitive language) 'ethnic' (subsuming something like, 'preexisting cultural') and, Sorry, (subsequent) 'cultural' influences, as has been happening from the beginning of anything that either anticipates, or otherwise resembles history.

 

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Hi all, and sorry to be late for talking about that coinage (Divus Constantinus)

@Valentinian : indeed, finding nice coins for the Lyons' Aeterna type is not common

Here is one pretty good for example https://www.colleconline.com/fr/items/54664/monnaie-antique-romaine-ric-bastien-9
Al

 

Exact ref. is RIC. 32 - Ferrando II (= Ferrando 2010) 543

However, for me, "desert patina" on Constantine consecration coins minted in Arelate makes them doubtful (my opinion)

 

@Al.cofribas, Yeah, Minor Detail, There. Wish I could remember who, in which thread, talked about how prevalent fake 'desert patina' was. Sounds like somebody got a little too happy at the dealership....

 

@+VGO.DVCKS

@+VGO.DVCKS May be Victor on his LRBC forum http://www.lateromanbronzecoinforum.com/index.php/topic,1221.msg3491.html#msg3491
...and curiously the same dealer

here again http://www.lateromanbronzecoinforum.com/index.php/topic,1106.msg3389.html#msg3389
Al

 

Thanks, @Al.cofribas, that was definitely where it was going, but someone fleetingly mentioned the same thing on this forum --gosh, a week ago; maybe as long as that.

 

My pleasure @+VGO.DVCKS , may be here (below) conversation between @IMP Shogun & @DonnaML
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-mysterious-transformation.360216/page-2

 

There's a long thread from a year or so ago, before I joined, about the two dealers most prominently associated with this practice, Athena and Zurqieh. It's called something along the lines of "From A to Z."