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<p>[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 5168112, member: 89514"]Aestimare,</p><p><br /></p><p>Elagabalus' antoniniani and denarii in Rome-mint style but with obv. legend IMP ANTONINVS AVG were in my opinion all produced at a branch mint, which indeed remained in operation at the beginning of the emperor's TR P III, as shown by the TR P III Jupiter seated type that you cite, but which never added a star to its reverse types, so is irrelevant to the question of when the mint of Rome added that star.</p><p><br /></p><p>Consider the relevant dated coins of the mint of Rome: TR P II Sol standing, always without star, 18 such denarii in the Reka Devnia hoard; TR P III Sol advancing, always with star, 143 such denarii in the hoard. The TR P III type is so common that it very likely began quite early in the year, indeed probably at the very beginning of the year, as the continuation of the TR P II Sol standing type of the preceding issue. There are, indeed, a few TR P III mint of Rome middle bronzes that still omit the star (Thirion 157a and 168-9), but these cannot push the date of the introduction of the star more than perhaps a week or two past 1 Jan. 220, and maybe not at all, because they could be New Year's issues dated to after 1 January, but actually produced a couple of weeks earlier, so before the introduction of the star.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 5168112, member: 89514"]Aestimare, Elagabalus' antoniniani and denarii in Rome-mint style but with obv. legend IMP ANTONINVS AVG were in my opinion all produced at a branch mint, which indeed remained in operation at the beginning of the emperor's TR P III, as shown by the TR P III Jupiter seated type that you cite, but which never added a star to its reverse types, so is irrelevant to the question of when the mint of Rome added that star. Consider the relevant dated coins of the mint of Rome: TR P II Sol standing, always without star, 18 such denarii in the Reka Devnia hoard; TR P III Sol advancing, always with star, 143 such denarii in the hoard. The TR P III type is so common that it very likely began quite early in the year, indeed probably at the very beginning of the year, as the continuation of the TR P II Sol standing type of the preceding issue. There are, indeed, a few TR P III mint of Rome middle bronzes that still omit the star (Thirion 157a and 168-9), but these cannot push the date of the introduction of the star more than perhaps a week or two past 1 Jan. 220, and maybe not at all, because they could be New Year's issues dated to after 1 January, but actually produced a couple of weeks earlier, so before the introduction of the star.[/QUOTE]
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