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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3203865, member: 19463"]The mint city attributions for Septimius were always just guesses. I believe most of the reasoning was based on the theory that Antioch was punished for being loyal to Pescennius Niger in the civil war and they had to find other cities where Septimius would have assigned mints to supply coins while Antioch was out of favor. I don't know what they are thinking now and whether they have any reason better than it is fashionable to throw out old guesses and replace them with new.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes we get clues from style comparison with Provincial coins. This AE26 is Laodicea.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]829792[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3203865, member: 19463"]The mint city attributions for Septimius were always just guesses. I believe most of the reasoning was based on the theory that Antioch was punished for being loyal to Pescennius Niger in the civil war and they had to find other cities where Septimius would have assigned mints to supply coins while Antioch was out of favor. I don't know what they are thinking now and whether they have any reason better than it is fashionable to throw out old guesses and replace them with new. Sometimes we get clues from style comparison with Provincial coins. This AE26 is Laodicea. [ATTACH=full]829792[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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