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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2554561, member: 19463&quot;]Bellinger in 1981 was far from certain that the wheat coins should be attributed to Cyprus since the whole thing rested on a similarity to a coin of Vespasian which I have not found (but I don&#039;t have RPC or Prieur to do proper follow up research on the matter).&nbsp; In the time of Caracalla, Cyprus was part of Syria as I understand it and the need to associate each device with a mint is what drives people to write books.&nbsp; In my specialty of Septimius Severus Eastern denarii we often even write the mint &quot;Emesa&quot; in quotes to show we really do not have proof where the things were made but that was the proposal of the guys that wrote the standard references.&nbsp; All I know for sure is that I would not sell this coin to someone outside the US because it would possibly have trouble returning anytime in the future.&nbsp; This one came from a US source who got it from a US source but how we prove that at the border is a question best not risked.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=caracalla+cyprus&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=0&amp;company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=caracalla+cyprus&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=0&amp;company=" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=caracalla+cyprus&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=0&amp;company=</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The above link states:</p><p>&quot;Prieur admits that the attribution of these grain ear issues to Cyrpus is speculative. As they aren&#039;t found in Cyprus it seems to be unlikely that they were minted there. The mint of Akko has been suggested by David Hendin. I see some style similarities between this coin and Prieur 1205 from Damascus.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I will note that there are AE coins of Caracalla marked Cyprus that strike me as having quite different style.&nbsp; I have said here on several occasions that I consider collecting ancient coins a poor choice of hobbies for people who must have absolute certainty about every little detail of life.&nbsp; Scholarship on many things in our chosen field is at best a work in progress.&nbsp; This reminds me of an old joke that circulated among people in the medical profession: &quot;We say we &#039;Practice Medicine&#039; because we really aren&#039;t good at it yet.&quot;&nbsp; I have also said that I would really love to be able to see any day in the life of my coins since they were made so I would know when (taking care of the problem of fakes), where, how and by whom they were handled.&nbsp; That would leave me ignorant only on why and we all learned from our children that why is the hardest question of them all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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