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<p>[QUOTE="seth77, post: 2214694, member: 56653"]There might be others but like I said they are not recorded in the references I went through. The "unique" part is also wishful thinking that hasn't been disproved yet.</p><p>If you consider the big picture though, the fact that we still stumble upon previously unrecorded variations of known types is not that unlikely as these LRBs were minted by the millions in such diversity of variations. We even find completely new types, like for instance this anepigraphic Helena, which is only the second known example, offered by Jose A. Herrero on auction:[ATTACH=full]433124[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>What I'm saying is that the late roman period still holds in store a lot of surprises for a patient numismatist <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="seth77, post: 2214694, member: 56653"]There might be others but like I said they are not recorded in the references I went through. The "unique" part is also wishful thinking that hasn't been disproved yet. If you consider the big picture though, the fact that we still stumble upon previously unrecorded variations of known types is not that unlikely as these LRBs were minted by the millions in such diversity of variations. We even find completely new types, like for instance this anepigraphic Helena, which is only the second known example, offered by Jose A. Herrero on auction:[ATTACH=full]433124[/ATTACH] What I'm saying is that the late roman period still holds in store a lot of surprises for a patient numismatist :)[/QUOTE]
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