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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2842970, member: 44316&quot;]Doug knows what he is talking about, having participated in cataloging decisions for Failmeger&#039;s book &quot;Roman Bronze Coins.&quot; What makes a &quot;type&quot; as opposed to a &quot;variety&quot;? For me, Doug&#039;s lion in exergue is super special and worthy of its own number. When Tory Failmezger had to choose how to number the types (intentionally ignoring mints) there were questions whether the same design with, say</p><p>DN CONSTANTINI MAX AVG around VOT XX </p><p>and </p><p>DN CONSTANTINI MAX AVGVSTI around VOT XX</p><p>should get different numbers when they look pretty much the same. If you collect Constantine by variety, they are different. If you don&#039;t collect that way but like the Constantinian coins enough to buy the book, you might consider them effectively the same and deserving of one &quot;type&quot; number. (Tory gave them the same number.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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