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<p>[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 7782225, member: 89514"][USER=116315]@Claudius_Gothicus[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for posting your ideas.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am surprised, however, that you want to separate the first issue for Valerian alone as IMP P LIC VALERIANO AVG, from the later issues for Valerian and Gallienus together as, initially, IMP VALERIANVS P AVG and IMP GALLIENVS P AVG.</p><p><br /></p><p>After all, the later issues take over two of the first issue's three reverse types, namely FIDES MILITVM and VIRTVS AVGG, the second of which had only one G in the first issue because Gallienus had not yet been made joint emperor. There are however rare first issue coins with the double G, adding to the impression that it was the same mint that produced the VIRTVS AVG coins of the first issue and the VIRTVS AVGG coins of, mainly, the later issues. See Göbl pl. 63, 795 (BM), plus another specimen from different dies in my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nothing about the style of the first issue coins has ever made me think that they must have been struck by a different mint than the later issues, and the same goes for the change from the dative to nominative obverse legends: I don't know why that change was made, but it certainly doesn't appear to me to be evidence for different mints.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 7782225, member: 89514"][USER=116315]@Claudius_Gothicus[/USER] Thanks for posting your ideas. I am surprised, however, that you want to separate the first issue for Valerian alone as IMP P LIC VALERIANO AVG, from the later issues for Valerian and Gallienus together as, initially, IMP VALERIANVS P AVG and IMP GALLIENVS P AVG. After all, the later issues take over two of the first issue's three reverse types, namely FIDES MILITVM and VIRTVS AVGG, the second of which had only one G in the first issue because Gallienus had not yet been made joint emperor. There are however rare first issue coins with the double G, adding to the impression that it was the same mint that produced the VIRTVS AVG coins of the first issue and the VIRTVS AVGG coins of, mainly, the later issues. See Göbl pl. 63, 795 (BM), plus another specimen from different dies in my collection. Nothing about the style of the first issue coins has ever made me think that they must have been struck by a different mint than the later issues, and the same goes for the change from the dative to nominative obverse legends: I don't know why that change was made, but it certainly doesn't appear to me to be evidence for different mints.[/QUOTE]
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