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Message:: [QUOTE="svessien, post: 4598373, member: 15481"]Thank you, [USER=89514]@curtislclay[/USER] I picked up Sutherland «Roman Coins» to see if he expanded on this, but you summed up what he wrote well. Sutherland writes in note 177:«Mattingly (...) observed the change from bare to laureate head, and from looser to neater lettering, in the course of gold and silver from AD 37-38 (with TR P). There were changes also in the forms of the head, nose and (most important) eye. Rome was the mint for gold and silver under Nero, in all probability(...) no evidence for transference from Lyons to Rome can be adduced for Claudius; and thus the internal changes of detail in the coins of Gaius argue for transference in 37-38. It should be noted that, although there is no strict parallelism of type between Gaius’ gold and silver and Gaius aes, there is a strong parallelism of concepts such as would have been natural if all imperial coinage was centralized in Rome.» This is basically the argument. Not really sure if I’m buying it, I think the denarii of Claudius has a great deal of variation with regards to both details and clockwise/counterclockwise lettering. It’s interesting to read, though, that these subtle differences are what the experts are going on. Thank you again for getting me on the track with Sutherland. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]