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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 7876091, member: 120820&quot;]There&#039;s actually an interesting seniority-based assignment of officinas in effect at Carthage for these issues (from Alpha highest seniority, to Delta lowest seniority), which causes the officina assignments to change for each change to the tetrarchic lineup. A beneficial (to us collectors!) side effect of this is that we can attribute coins per the tetrarchic lineup in effect at the time, which is how RIC attributes them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a graphic I made showing the changing officina assignments.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1357567[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Note how every time new junior members of the tetrarchy are added (in green), the existing members move up in seniority thereby getting different officinas assigned to them.</p><p><br /></p><p>You coin, from officina B, is indeed RIC 51b, and was issued by Maxentius. Officina B had earlier been used by Galerius when he was considered 2nd most senior during the 2nd tetrarchy (RIC 39-40).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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