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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 7909365, member: 120820&quot;]While scarce, these still seem too plentiful to be mules, and if mules one might ask:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) Why always Gloria Ex reverse with city obverse, not vice versa ?</p><p><br /></p><p>2) Why only from this specific, geographically grouped, set of mints ?</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s also perhaps relevant to note the fondness of Constantius II, who controlled most of these mints (apart from Thessalonica) for the Roma/Constantinopolis obverses, since he later c.348 AD also paired them with his VOT XX MVLT XXX vota reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure what sources we have for the interregnum. One discussion of it is in this video by Lars Ramskold, prepared for last year&#039;s Nis &amp; Byzantium conference.</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]6uvF5iF2dD8[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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