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<p>[QUOTE="dltsrq, post: 7929620, member: 75482"]The mint of Vespasian at Ephesus seems to have been established by Vespasian during the Civil War, along with mints at Byzantium and Philippi, and continued for a short time afterward. RIC (vol. II, 1st ed., p. 3) refers to these collectively as the "Asia Minor Group".</p><p><br /></p><p>I find it best to think of mints as organizations. Vespasian's imperial mint and the later provincial mint in Ephesus may or may not have any association beyond being located at Ephesus. A Greek mint existed in the city as early as the late 7th century BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding Augustus, RIC vol. I notes (p.6), "Ephesus (Provincia Asia), producing cistophoric tetradrachms (= 3 denarii) of imperatorial nature in 28 BC and c.25-20 BC in large numbers, the latter probably with <i>aes </i>on the Roman weight-system, and of wide circulation."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dltsrq, post: 7929620, member: 75482"]The mint of Vespasian at Ephesus seems to have been established by Vespasian during the Civil War, along with mints at Byzantium and Philippi, and continued for a short time afterward. RIC (vol. II, 1st ed., p. 3) refers to these collectively as the "Asia Minor Group". I find it best to think of mints as organizations. Vespasian's imperial mint and the later provincial mint in Ephesus may or may not have any association beyond being located at Ephesus. A Greek mint existed in the city as early as the late 7th century BC. Regarding Augustus, RIC vol. I notes (p.6), "Ephesus (Provincia Asia), producing cistophoric tetradrachms (= 3 denarii) of imperatorial nature in 28 BC and c.25-20 BC in large numbers, the latter probably with [I]aes [/I]on the Roman weight-system, and of wide circulation."[/QUOTE]
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