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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7651180, member: 19463&quot;]I have not heard the suggestion that there was an Imperial mint for Macrinus in the East since many years ago when some people had trouble with the great portrait change that occurred at Rome giving us both the short beard and long beard portraits.&nbsp; The official word on the new man&#039;s appearance took a while to reach Rome.&nbsp; I have my opinions on the matter and no longer agree with the thoughts I had in 2013 when Bing brought this up.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/macrinus.223026/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/macrinus.223026/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/macrinus.223026/</a></p><p>The question now:&nbsp; Which came first? This is one of the pages I regret being unable to update since I lost access to my site. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1315464[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1315465[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Provincials come both ways, too. I do not own a good long beard one.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1315479[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1315480[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1315481[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I consider this last Marcianopolis interesting since the senior ruler is on the right side opposite the more common orientation.&nbsp; Accident? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1315482[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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