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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7876870, member: 19463&quot;]This is a style thing.&nbsp; If there is a difference, the Rome ones seem less common but I prefer the wild and wooly Alexandrian style. Broucheion&#039;s is Alexandria as is mine.&nbsp; I do not have a Rome mint Pertinax.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1357817[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>For the record: There is one other common Alexandria Pertinax.</p><p>PROVID DEOR COS II</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1357819[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I have a serious question about when these were made.&nbsp; Pertinax was dead about the time the mint could have known to strike for him.&nbsp; I can not help thinking that the coins were continued in production after his death while Alexandria was deciding whether to support Pescennius or Septimius.&nbsp; The number we see in market strikes me as supporting an extended issue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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