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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2785946, member: 19463&quot;]My experience with Claudius provincials has not been so good.&nbsp; Antioch was not at a high point in their quality of workmanship. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]645798[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I am not seeing where you have any right to complain about &#039;miserable ants&#039; from Claudius.&nbsp; I see your miserable and raise you a pathetic (flipover double strike):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]645799[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Not long after Aurelian came to power, he cleaned up the act at the mint and reformed the coinage.&nbsp; Except for the few coins of Quintillus, Claudius was the last of the old way of doing things and doing them poorly. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you look very hard, you might find half decent coins of Quintillus.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]645800[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There are even some decent Claudius dies and some well struck Claudius ants but getting an acceptable degree of both both on one coin takes some looking.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]645801[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]645802[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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