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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 6455388, member: 19463&quot;]I really don&#039;t care about what dealers and auction houses care about since they tend to only be interested in what most of their customers care about and that is more likely grade than small details of design.&nbsp; What does bother me is that this thread has survived a dozen posts and no one here seems to care about what I consider the single neatest thing about the coins and one discussed on CT more than once in the decade I have been here.&nbsp; That is the tree types.&nbsp; Each mint use a different type tree.&nbsp; Some used more than one and there are die variations that make it hard to pin down exactly what tree is being shown but it is obvious that the definition of &#039;tree&#039; was left up to each mint.&nbsp; We have discussed here the Bruck book on low grade coins which includes drawings so you can ID the mint of these coins even if your examples have no legend.&nbsp; At one time I was close to having the &#039;set&#039; of twenty mints (13 for Constans and seven for Constantius II) but started selling off my lesser specimens regardless of mint and stopped chasing things that only interested me because I did not have them.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know today have many of the Constans mints I still have.&nbsp; Gavin Richardson showed all 13 Constans coins.&nbsp; Some others have shown some of the Constantius seven.&nbsp; Below is what I still have of that group lacking Trier and Siscia.&nbsp; Bruck lists the 13 and 7 in a chart with numbers underneath counting specimens in the Vienna collection The lowest Constantius numbers are the two I do not have.&nbsp; Who has that pair?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Arles</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1257448[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Aquileia</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1257449[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Rome</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1257450[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Rome with N</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1257451[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Thessalonika</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1257452[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Alexandria</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1257453[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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