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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2187334, member: 19463&quot;]The question to me is why Vespasian returned to the normal inverted (we used to call it &#039;base out&#039;) legends for some but not all of his coins.&nbsp; It had been normal for Lugdunum silver of Augustus and Tiberius but I&#039;m not aware of a base out for Nero and the short term emperors that followed him.&nbsp; For that matter, why is it harder to find inverted bronzes of either period compared to silver?&nbsp; This one is a Lugdunum mint as of Tiberius.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]424383[/ATTACH] </p><p>Is there a code here? Does our current (RIC) system identify mints correctly?&nbsp; What are the latest coins done that way?&nbsp;&nbsp; My last is this Domitian (late 81 AD after Titus died):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]424382[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I have to assume that Domitian stopped it cold when he changed everything to make Rome &#039;his&#039;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Has any of our past scholars commented on why the style was used and ended?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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