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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 3085617, member: 88829&quot;]One of the things that has always griped me about RIC IX is that they define &quot;periods&quot; by chronology, rather than &quot;series&quot; by markings.&nbsp; The difference between period 1 and period 2 is that the second begins when Gratian is elevated to power.&nbsp; The listings seem to be saying that the coins of the other two continued to be produced unaltered after that happened.</p><p><br /></p><p>To put it into perspective, Volume IX was an early approach to the RIC series which was created to help slot coin material into historical categories.&nbsp; Later volumes altered the concept into a study of coin morphology set in an historical framework.&nbsp; A shift from WHO was on the coin to WHAT was on the coin.&nbsp; Both got covered in both evolved approaches, but in different ways.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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