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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4206670, member: 89514&quot;]Of Jamesicus&#039; four bronzes, only the Drusus sestertius and the Claudius As are from the mint of Rome.</p><p><br /></p><p>Claudius Spes sestertius: Spanish mint, probably Tarraco, because of different legend style (particularly the Ms and Rs), and the dots before and after S C in rev. exergue. A large hoard of sestertii and dupondii all in this style was found near Tarraco in 1872 (Pobla de Mafumet Hoard).</p><p><br /></p><p>Claudius Wreath sestertius: Undetermined Thracian mint, perhaps end of reign in same issue with Britannicus, Agrippina II, and Nero Caesar sestertii, because of somewhat clumsy style and centration dimples on both sides.</p><p><br /></p><p>Laffranchi correctly separated the Tarraco mint and one other Spanish or Gallic mint from Rome in 1948, but unfortunately his discovery was ignored by Sutherland in his revised RIC I (1984) and by Giard in his Paris catalogue (1988), with the result that their only mint distinction for Claudius bronzes, as in the original RIC I and in Cohen, was between &quot;Official (Mint of Rome)&quot; and &quot;Imitations&quot;. Von Kaenel in his monograph on Claudius (1986) followed Laffranchi in correctly separating out the Tarraco mint, but improbably regarded it as a branch mint in Rome commissioned by the government to assist in the production of bronze coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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