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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4632738, member: 19463"]You may have trouble finding people who understand how the decisions were made as to where to break RIC volumes. Constantine and Licinius were on the scene and issued too many coins to fit in one book. Wherever they selected would have had problems. </p><p><br /></p><p>Mine is not a match for yours. Mine is RIC volume VI page 519, 60 and is the last Licinius in volume VI for this mint.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1145684[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe (I am no expert in this period!) yours is RIC volume VII, page 498, 3 on the first page of that volume's section on this mint. The break point here was the death of Maximinus II. Coins like mine are found in his name but coins like yours are not. They had to break them somewhere. We might have chosen somewhere else but I don't know where. I suggest you buy volumes VII and VIII and pretend the three are all in one huge book.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4632738, member: 19463"]You may have trouble finding people who understand how the decisions were made as to where to break RIC volumes. Constantine and Licinius were on the scene and issued too many coins to fit in one book. Wherever they selected would have had problems. Mine is not a match for yours. Mine is RIC volume VI page 519, 60 and is the last Licinius in volume VI for this mint. [ATTACH=full]1145684[/ATTACH] I believe (I am no expert in this period!) yours is RIC volume VII, page 498, 3 on the first page of that volume's section on this mint. The break point here was the death of Maximinus II. Coins like mine are found in his name but coins like yours are not. They had to break them somewhere. We might have chosen somewhere else but I don't know where. I suggest you buy volumes VII and VIII and pretend the three are all in one huge book.[/QUOTE]
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