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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 3587533, member: 97383&quot;]Valentinian, I like the sandy patina on your Year 16 follis &amp; the clear mintmark on your example with the <b>bar</b> over <b>H</b>. I wasn&#039;t aware of this variation before, &amp; taking a closer look at my photo I can see the <b>bar</b> over <b>H</b> on my example too <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. The staff at Heritage didn&#039;t mention this variation on my coin so they obviously missed it too. The added links in your post are interesting &amp; informative. The ongoing devastation at the city of Antioch must have been a hard pill to swallow. Once the 3rd most important city in the Roman Empire turned out to be &quot;the city cursed by God&quot;. As William Metcalf points out in the catalog <b>ANTIOCH, The Lost Ancient City</b>, &quot;Antioch never produced a coinage as dominant as that of Athens or as beautiful as that of Sicily, but the longevity of its mint is unmatched, even by Rome&#039;s.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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