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<p>[QUOTE="Ocatarinetabellatchitchix, post: 3868158, member: 99554"]More details about the hoard :</p><p>To date, the numismatic study has cataloged and identified <b>3501</b> coins, a quarter of the total of the hoard.</p><p>The coinage prior to the reform of 318 (mainly the type SOLI INVICTO COMITI) is only residual. The issues of the years 318-324 and 324-330, with the types VICTORIAE LAET PRINC PERP,BEATA TRANQVILLITAS, SARMATIA DEVICTA, and PROVIDENTIAE AVGG / CAESS, are better represented, but remain modest compared to those of the period 330-341. The largest part of the treasure consists in fact in number offering the reverse GLORIA EXERCITVS to one or two standards, or one of the urban types associated with it, VRBS ROMA and CONSTANTINOPOLIS. In this set, it seems that the emissions of the period 330-337 are nevertheless more numerous. Added to this is the regular presence of imitations. Of these, the reproductions of Nummi on the reverse GLORIA EXERCITVS (two banners), VRBS ROMA and CONSTANTINOPOLIS were preferred. Finally, the most recent of the 341-348, VICTORIAE DD AVGGQ NN strikes, close the treasure and are very discreet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ocatarinetabellatchitchix, post: 3868158, member: 99554"]More details about the hoard : To date, the numismatic study has cataloged and identified [B]3501[/B] coins, a quarter of the total of the hoard. The coinage prior to the reform of 318 (mainly the type SOLI INVICTO COMITI) is only residual. The issues of the years 318-324 and 324-330, with the types VICTORIAE LAET PRINC PERP,BEATA TRANQVILLITAS, SARMATIA DEVICTA, and PROVIDENTIAE AVGG / CAESS, are better represented, but remain modest compared to those of the period 330-341. The largest part of the treasure consists in fact in number offering the reverse GLORIA EXERCITVS to one or two standards, or one of the urban types associated with it, VRBS ROMA and CONSTANTINOPOLIS. In this set, it seems that the emissions of the period 330-337 are nevertheless more numerous. Added to this is the regular presence of imitations. Of these, the reproductions of Nummi on the reverse GLORIA EXERCITVS (two banners), VRBS ROMA and CONSTANTINOPOLIS were preferred. Finally, the most recent of the 341-348, VICTORIAE DD AVGGQ NN strikes, close the treasure and are very discreet.[/QUOTE]
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