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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24631012, member: 26430"]AND it's an Adventus type, very cool coin! (Here's the <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9824787" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9824787" rel="nofollow">ACSearch record of its Heritage appearance</a> last year.)</p><p><br /></p><p>If we're counting the later AE ones issued intermittently, there's also Probus and, especially, Aurelian. (And <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8197012" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8197012" rel="nofollow">even Diocletian</a>. A few others, I presume.) I've got a few of the Aurelians in my "<a href="https://conservatoricoins.com/selections-from-the-bce-collection/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://conservatoricoins.com/selections-from-the-bce-collection/" rel="nofollow">Barbarians & Captives</a>" coll., which are actually fairly common and come in many different sub-varieties:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1566823[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I've even seen the small module Tetrarchic AEs described as "1/4 Follis or Denarius" (but usually in French or German!), like this otherwise forgettable Constantius Chlorus (and its awful draft photo I took when inventorying "group coins" not individually cataloged). </p><p><br /></p><p>But I have yet to track down what evidence or argumentation actually supports calling them "Denarius" (or any other specific term, other than some generic like "nummus"):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1566824[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24631012, member: 26430"]AND it's an Adventus type, very cool coin! (Here's the [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9824787']ACSearch record of its Heritage appearance[/URL] last year.) If we're counting the later AE ones issued intermittently, there's also Probus and, especially, Aurelian. (And [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8197012']even Diocletian[/URL]. A few others, I presume.) I've got a few of the Aurelians in my "[URL='https://conservatoricoins.com/selections-from-the-bce-collection/']Barbarians & Captives[/URL]" coll., which are actually fairly common and come in many different sub-varieties: [ATTACH=full]1566823[/ATTACH] I've even seen the small module Tetrarchic AEs described as "1/4 Follis or Denarius" (but usually in French or German!), like this otherwise forgettable Constantius Chlorus (and its awful draft photo I took when inventorying "group coins" not individually cataloged). But I have yet to track down what evidence or argumentation actually supports calling them "Denarius" (or any other specific term, other than some generic like "nummus"): [ATTACH=full]1566824[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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