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<p>[QUOTE="David@PCC, post: 7794585, member: 80556"]I agree on most of your points especially that all the Alexandrian issues are connected to each other. For me the commonality of deities and inscriptions between the 3 cities is only as coincidental as previous themes in Roman provincial coinage. What I mean by that is the Roman pantheon of gods is a common theme on provincial coins and that they are not necessarily connected to other cities other than they share the same deities. </p><p>As far as the genio inscriptions, cities would have been proud to boast themselves on coinage especially after Diocletian's reform. In my research, it's not what I have found but what I have not found that link's these 3 groupings of coinage together. Certainly Christian persecution was occurring during this period but I do not believe that or some other common purpose was involved in the striking of these. </p><p>Now Certainly as you have pointed out, I believe there is a common purpose within each mint, but not between the 3. So if there is is no clear connection, then why were these made I'm sure everyone is asking? I still adhere that all of these were made because of various local festivals dependent on the municipality in which they were occurring, the evidence I present is in the link provided on the bottom of Donna's <a href="http://allcoinage.com/anonymous_civic.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://allcoinage.com/anonymous_civic.php" rel="nofollow">post</a> but Nicomedia and Alexandria are yet to be completed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="David@PCC, post: 7794585, member: 80556"]I agree on most of your points especially that all the Alexandrian issues are connected to each other. For me the commonality of deities and inscriptions between the 3 cities is only as coincidental as previous themes in Roman provincial coinage. What I mean by that is the Roman pantheon of gods is a common theme on provincial coins and that they are not necessarily connected to other cities other than they share the same deities. As far as the genio inscriptions, cities would have been proud to boast themselves on coinage especially after Diocletian's reform. In my research, it's not what I have found but what I have not found that link's these 3 groupings of coinage together. Certainly Christian persecution was occurring during this period but I do not believe that or some other common purpose was involved in the striking of these. Now Certainly as you have pointed out, I believe there is a common purpose within each mint, but not between the 3. So if there is is no clear connection, then why were these made I'm sure everyone is asking? I still adhere that all of these were made because of various local festivals dependent on the municipality in which they were occurring, the evidence I present is in the link provided on the bottom of Donna's [URL='http://allcoinage.com/anonymous_civic.php']post[/URL] but Nicomedia and Alexandria are yet to be completed.[/QUOTE]
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