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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7759983, member: 110350&quot;]I find this fascinating, and not the least bit surprising given how closely the styles of 3rd Century Roman Provincial coins from Thrace and Moesia often seem to resemble each other, regardless of the city that &quot;issued&quot; them. And given the common use of the central &quot;lathe dimple&quot; technique to achieve the roundness of the flans. Something I haven&#039;t really seen outside Moesia and Thrace.</p><p><br /></p><p>Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior [Devnya, Bulgaria]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1330240[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Anchialus, Thrace [Pomorie, Bulgaria]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1330243[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Mesembria, Thrace [Nessebar, Bulgaria]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1330244[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Just out of curiosity, what were the two or three largest cities in those two provinces? One might think that the largest cities would be good candidates for the location of such a central mint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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