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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1890077, member: 19463&quot;]YOC brings up a point that has interested me for years and for which I see no answer.&nbsp; We have no records that state what were the &#039;official&#039; mints at any point in Roman history.&nbsp; We have several periods where branch mints operated.&nbsp; Were these fully sanctioned by Rome or just tolerated?&nbsp; One such time was under Claudius I where we see Spanish style asses now being considered to be a branch mint product rather than fully unofficial as they were a few decades ago.&nbsp; Drawing the line is harder when the &#039;official&#039; coins were from a usurper (Magnentius, Carausius, all the Gallics etc. etc.).&nbsp; We really need to be careful making assumptions and drawing lines in the sand that could be shown wrong if we only had documents from the time that explained everything.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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