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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 7907730, member: 44316"]This thread has shown many excellent coins. I like the commemorative issues of the period and wrote a web page on them:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/CON/Founding.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/CON/Founding.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/CON/Founding.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There are examples of other, related, types on that page. Here is an interesting coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1364809[/ATTACH]</p><p>This is a mule. Here the CONSTANTINOPOLIS obverse is combined with the wolf-and-twins reverse proper to the VRBS ROMA obverse.</p><p>14 mm. 1.70 grams.</p><p>This particular coin was published in SAN XI.2 (1980) page 37 as potentially official. Subsequently an expert on the issue, Pierre Bastien, saw it and told me he thought it was an imitation. It has good style and lettering, but he assured me this is not the official style of Lugdunum, in spite of the clear PLG mintmark of Lugdunum (see RIC page 140). Then this piece was cited in <i>A Survey of Numismatic Research, 1978-1984</i>, page 288. The existence of official mules of this period was the subject of several articles in SAN (VI,1 (1974), pages 8 and 15; VI.3 (1975) page 42; X.2 (1979) pages 20-21; X.4 (9179) page 60). After 30 years studying the matter, I think no mules of these types were intentionally issued, but I do not rule out a simple mint error in some cases.</p><p><br /></p><p>EDIT: I found a better photo of that coin:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1364963[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 7907730, member: 44316"]This thread has shown many excellent coins. I like the commemorative issues of the period and wrote a web page on them: [URL]http://augustuscoins.com/ed/CON/Founding.html[/URL] There are examples of other, related, types on that page. Here is an interesting coin: [ATTACH=full]1364809[/ATTACH] This is a mule. Here the CONSTANTINOPOLIS obverse is combined with the wolf-and-twins reverse proper to the VRBS ROMA obverse. 14 mm. 1.70 grams. This particular coin was published in SAN XI.2 (1980) page 37 as potentially official. Subsequently an expert on the issue, Pierre Bastien, saw it and told me he thought it was an imitation. It has good style and lettering, but he assured me this is not the official style of Lugdunum, in spite of the clear PLG mintmark of Lugdunum (see RIC page 140). Then this piece was cited in [I]A Survey of Numismatic Research, 1978-1984[/I], page 288. The existence of official mules of this period was the subject of several articles in SAN (VI,1 (1974), pages 8 and 15; VI.3 (1975) page 42; X.2 (1979) pages 20-21; X.4 (9179) page 60). After 30 years studying the matter, I think no mules of these types were intentionally issued, but I do not rule out a simple mint error in some cases. EDIT: I found a better photo of that coin: [ATTACH=full]1364963[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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