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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3158380, member: 19463"]<a href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/search/advanced" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/search/advanced" rel="nofollow">http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/search/advanced</a></p><p>Try the search on this page from the site zumbly gave. Leave blank fields you can not be sure of since a small error might hide the correct answer. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are more clashes of Claudius II than most emperors. I believe this just shows how busy the mint was and they did not have time to replace dies that were only slightly damaged. We have had several threads on CT discussing clashed dies. </p><p><br /></p><p>Your son's question about mint ID is a good one. Modern collectors assume a mint mark will be a city initial but most Roman mints started with something else like workshop numbers and assumed you could figure out the city or that it was not important. A good lesson is that we can never assume that some ancient people would make the same assumptions we do. Claudius did not see marking mints as necessary but we can separate them by the style of the engravers that worked in each city. How do we know which city was which? That question will take a lot more research but when you are seven, you have time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3158380, member: 19463"][url]http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/search/advanced[/url] Try the search on this page from the site zumbly gave. Leave blank fields you can not be sure of since a small error might hide the correct answer. There are more clashes of Claudius II than most emperors. I believe this just shows how busy the mint was and they did not have time to replace dies that were only slightly damaged. We have had several threads on CT discussing clashed dies. Your son's question about mint ID is a good one. Modern collectors assume a mint mark will be a city initial but most Roman mints started with something else like workshop numbers and assumed you could figure out the city or that it was not important. A good lesson is that we can never assume that some ancient people would make the same assumptions we do. Claudius did not see marking mints as necessary but we can separate them by the style of the engravers that worked in each city. How do we know which city was which? That question will take a lot more research but when you are seven, you have time.[/QUOTE]
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