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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4959053, member: 19463"]Those are excellent post-abdication issues. My favorite Diocletians are the pre-reform Siscia mint coded series where the word IOBI is divided by the three workshops giving us A with I, B with O and gamma with BI. The coins below illustrate the three different placements of the officinae letters. Those who get carried away with sets might also get all the placements with each officina and even the different style busts but I stopped with the simple set of three. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1192131[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1192132[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1192133[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I guess anyone who wants these will want the Maximianus set which divided HP-KOY-lambdaI but that is another post for another thread. </p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/code.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/code.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/code.html</a></p><p>A dealer once told me that these were rare and hard to find. The truth is that many sellers that call themselves dealers have no idea what those extra letters mean so you can find them just by paying attention.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4959053, member: 19463"]Those are excellent post-abdication issues. My favorite Diocletians are the pre-reform Siscia mint coded series where the word IOBI is divided by the three workshops giving us A with I, B with O and gamma with BI. The coins below illustrate the three different placements of the officinae letters. Those who get carried away with sets might also get all the placements with each officina and even the different style busts but I stopped with the simple set of three. [ATTACH=full]1192131[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1192132[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1192133[/ATTACH] I guess anyone who wants these will want the Maximianus set which divided HP-KOY-lambdaI but that is another post for another thread. [URL]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/code.html[/URL] A dealer once told me that these were rare and hard to find. The truth is that many sellers that call themselves dealers have no idea what those extra letters mean so you can find them just by paying attention.[/QUOTE]
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