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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2180374, member: 57495&quot;]On my first pass through the collection I saw a couple of questionable large bronzes... not any of the major coins, so I haven&#039;t gotten around to examining them in detail yet. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re spot on!&nbsp; There are two abdication issues and one very nice Constantine as caesar from the Carthage mint.&nbsp; Based on the notes I made, the Diocletian and Maximianus abdication coins are both very interesting.&nbsp; The Diocletian is an issue with PTR in the exergue suggesting Treveri mint, but KS above that, and a CNG sale record of this type describes it as being actually the Cyzicus mint, where the design of the earliest issues including the mintmark was copied wholesale from Treveri, the mistake only rectified later.&nbsp; The Maximianus abdication from Aquileia appears to be extra scarce (RIC VI 63b), with the legend BAEATISSIMO SEN AVG rather than FELICISSIMO SEN AVG... I looked around for another example but couldn&#039;t find one. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure if I&#039;ll ever get a good sense of the collector&#039;s main collecting focus, but I am so far liking his individual coin choices![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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