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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3053257, member: 19463"]Authors of our standard references seem to have a problem accepting the fact that branch mints did not follow the 'rules' they have recognized as 'Roman'. This comes up in Severan coins from Alexandria and Syria where they considered a coin as unofficial because it copied Pertinax or Pescennius or even used a male reverse with a female portrait. Emesa and Alexandria did not know they were breaking RIC dictates. </p><p><br /></p><p>To me, this OP coin is most interesting for what it left off. Philip had a co-Augustus (his son) so his legend ended AVGG. Decius did not but the maker of the coin dropped both G's. The style and fabric do not strike me as Eastern mint Philip so I tend to believe the coin is unofficial. The diecutter knew enough about the issue to drop the G's and the officina B. It is an interesting coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are several Decius coins that seem a bit odd but I have not seen much suggesting he used branch mints since they found die links that ended the separation of the Milan coins. I don't know the status of current thought (after RIC) on Decius mints. Does anyone know of an update on this subject? Who has non-Rome Decius antoniniani to show? RIC attributed some coins with dots marking officinae as we see for Trebonianus Gallus but I don't have them. What is this odd style fellow? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]764429[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3053257, member: 19463"]Authors of our standard references seem to have a problem accepting the fact that branch mints did not follow the 'rules' they have recognized as 'Roman'. This comes up in Severan coins from Alexandria and Syria where they considered a coin as unofficial because it copied Pertinax or Pescennius or even used a male reverse with a female portrait. Emesa and Alexandria did not know they were breaking RIC dictates. To me, this OP coin is most interesting for what it left off. Philip had a co-Augustus (his son) so his legend ended AVGG. Decius did not but the maker of the coin dropped both G's. The style and fabric do not strike me as Eastern mint Philip so I tend to believe the coin is unofficial. The diecutter knew enough about the issue to drop the G's and the officina B. It is an interesting coin. There are several Decius coins that seem a bit odd but I have not seen much suggesting he used branch mints since they found die links that ended the separation of the Milan coins. I don't know the status of current thought (after RIC) on Decius mints. Does anyone know of an update on this subject? Who has non-Rome Decius antoniniani to show? RIC attributed some coins with dots marking officinae as we see for Trebonianus Gallus but I don't have them. What is this odd style fellow? [ATTACH=full]764429[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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