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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Choucas, post: 7390526, member: 100117&quot;]They are indeed only different engraving styles. Each mint had its style, kind of, but each engravers had also his own style and was more or less talented. All mints at that time had a range of style variations.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the Lyon mint, it was not active during the Gallic empire neither. This was also rejected by many authors since Elmer&#039;s and Lafaurie&#039;s works, as well as by Jerôme Mairat in his recent thesis about the coinage of the Gallic empire (which is the best work so far about the topic - freely available online on oxford&#039;s website if you are interested, the main points about the mints are in the first chapters. Mairat also summarise the debate about the mint under Gallienus and Valerian). Nonetheless, you will still find many auctions houses and dealers attributing them to Lyon since this is what you find in the RIC and the Cohen.</p><p><br /></p><p>To be honest, the mint attributions you will find on acsearch are most often pointless, only a few auctions houses have it right about this problem (CNG and Jacquier are the ones that come to my mind, but there are of course others). The best way to forge your opinion is to read some books and articles, some are hard to get or in a foreign language but hopefully a lot of things is available online as well (notably on academia).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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