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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor_Clark, post: 7825576, member: 10613&quot;]One of my favorites from Diocletian because somebody at the mint really messed up. Though RIC attributed this issue to Trier, it is actually from Cyzicus. See the president&#039;s address of J.P.C. Kent in <i>Numismatic Chronicle</i> 1987. Apparently, an engraver at Cyzicus &quot;reproduced mindlessly&quot; the design from Trier and included the Trier mintmark, then had to squeeze in the Cyzicus mintmark between the figures on the reverse. He further deduces that Trier must have been the pattern sent to each mint; which was then &quot;copied with widely varying degrees of intelligence&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1344738[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Diocletian</p><p>A.D. 305- 307</p><p>27mm&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 7.6g</p><p>D N DIOCLETIANO BEATISSIMO SEN AVG; Laureate and mantled bust r., holding olive-branch and mappa.</p><p>PROVIDENTIA DEORVM QVIES AVGG; Providentia standing r., extending hand to Quies standing l., holding branch and leaning on scepter, KS between; S-F across fields.</p><p>In ex. PTR</p><p>RIC VI Trier 671[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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