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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8333357, member: 19463&quot;]I remain of the opinion that this subject will not be understood to any degree in the next several generations, certainly not as long as the establishment looks down on the matter as unworthy of serious investigation.&nbsp; It is hard enough to study something with clearly defined parameters (like coins of a specific mint) but quite another matter to organize things that only have in common that they are <u><b>not </b></u> something already defined.&nbsp; The best possible study of unofficial coins of Britain in the Third Century tells us nothing about other times and places where one or a hundred people made coins for reasons wholly unknown.&nbsp; Necessity, larceny, by order of the Emperor, on one occasion.&nbsp; Techniques and available technology can not be expected to follow a set pattern as it might today when people interested in the subject might watch YouTube videos or read Counterfeiting for Dummies.&nbsp; I can not say that I would suggest a brilliant young scholar to embark on a lifetime study of a subject so vast as to have the real possibility of never rising to a level acceptable to the &#039;peer review&#039; system with &#039;peers&#039; who know nothing and have no interest in the subject.&nbsp; That leaves it to a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters writing away what they see and not being bothered by coins they can not explain.&nbsp; I have no expectation of seeing this change in my lifetime or in that of great grandchildren yet unborn.&nbsp; I liken it to the status of space travel when hot air balloons were all the rage two centuries ago.&nbsp; Meanwhile I will embrace the mystery and enjoy the coins about which I know more &#039;nothing&#039; than &#039;anything&#039;.&nbsp; A few photos of my favorite unknown, uncertain and unsupported by current scholarship coins of Septimius Severus (one of thousands or subdivisions of the question):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1477209[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1477210[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1477211[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1477212[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1477213[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1477214[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1477215[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1477216[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1477217[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1477218[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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