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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 8203566, member: 89514&quot;]Your Albinus: probably obv. die 76, rev. 119, new die combination.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sacrificial Implements was Caracalla Caesar&#039;s first rev. type, Spes his second.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not sure what celebrations you are referring to, and why you think sestertii might have been struck in advance for them? In any case bronze medallions and copper asses of Carcacalla were included in the New Year&#039;s issue of 1 Jan. 196, so coinage must have begun for him at least a couple of days before the end of Dec. 195.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sear&#039;s adoption of my new chronology came solely and directly from myself; I contacted him about it 20-25 years ago when I heard he was working on a new edition of his Roman Coins. Dating Caracalla&#039;s earliest coins to 196 rather than Dec. 195 must simply be a mistake of his; you will find the correct date, late 195, in my thesis, and I have not changed my mind since then![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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