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<p>[QUOTE="Claudius_Gothicus, post: 7783109, member: 116315"]Thanks for your new answer; as far as the style goes, I must admit I've come to agree with you, as in this past couple of days I've been looking at more and more coins of this mint, and now I do see a progression in the portrait style that makes me agree with the idea that they were struck at the same place. I didn't know about the first issue coins with AVGG, but that seems to be quite significative evidence; just for curiosity, are there any confirmed reverse die matches between first issue and second issue VIRTVS AVGG coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>So, if all of the "Viminacium" coins come from the same mint, and that mint might have been the same as Gallus' branch mint, does that completely invalidate the Viminacium theory? Should these issues be attributed as a military mint somewhere on the Rhine? I will try to find any papers that discuss hoard findings of both these "Viminacium" coins and Gallus' branch mint, to see if they coincide and if they support this theory, which unfortunately doesn't really explain why this branch mint was the first to adopt heroic busts on antoniniani, if there were no provincials with that bust in the region.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Claudius_Gothicus, post: 7783109, member: 116315"]Thanks for your new answer; as far as the style goes, I must admit I've come to agree with you, as in this past couple of days I've been looking at more and more coins of this mint, and now I do see a progression in the portrait style that makes me agree with the idea that they were struck at the same place. I didn't know about the first issue coins with AVGG, but that seems to be quite significative evidence; just for curiosity, are there any confirmed reverse die matches between first issue and second issue VIRTVS AVGG coins? So, if all of the "Viminacium" coins come from the same mint, and that mint might have been the same as Gallus' branch mint, does that completely invalidate the Viminacium theory? Should these issues be attributed as a military mint somewhere on the Rhine? I will try to find any papers that discuss hoard findings of both these "Viminacium" coins and Gallus' branch mint, to see if they coincide and if they support this theory, which unfortunately doesn't really explain why this branch mint was the first to adopt heroic busts on antoniniani, if there were no provincials with that bust in the region.[/QUOTE]
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