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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3751010, member: 75937"]I know that Besly and Bland argued that the existence of such hybrids proves that what they termed "special issue" coins were either minted by the Rome mint, or at least by dies supplied by that mint, but I don't find that argument compelling. Unless there are actual <i>reverse die-matches</i> between coins with the Rome obverse legend and the Milan obverse legend, this doesn't mean anything other than that the mints were in communication with each other, coordinating issues. Branch mints often produce reverse types in parallel with the Rome mint. Witness, for example:</p><p><br /></p><p>Rome mint:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1005847[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Eastern mint (formerly attributed to Laodicea):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1005846[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Nobody would argue that the "Laodicea" mint under Septimius Severus was actually a branch of the Rome mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>That theory doesn't take into account the difference in silver content between the coins when sorted by obverse legend. Moreover, Jérôme Mairat notes that the branch mint coins are found disproportionally higher in hoards of the Balkan regions. This suggests a mint closer to the troops fighting the Goths. This is one reason numismatists have suggested the branch mint was in Viminacium.</p><p><br /></p><p>For now, the intellectually honest thing to do is to term these coins the product of an "uncertain mint" (as Sear does).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3751010, member: 75937"]I know that Besly and Bland argued that the existence of such hybrids proves that what they termed "special issue" coins were either minted by the Rome mint, or at least by dies supplied by that mint, but I don't find that argument compelling. Unless there are actual [I]reverse die-matches[/I] between coins with the Rome obverse legend and the Milan obverse legend, this doesn't mean anything other than that the mints were in communication with each other, coordinating issues. Branch mints often produce reverse types in parallel with the Rome mint. Witness, for example: Rome mint: [ATTACH=full]1005847[/ATTACH] Eastern mint (formerly attributed to Laodicea): [ATTACH=full]1005846[/ATTACH] Nobody would argue that the "Laodicea" mint under Septimius Severus was actually a branch of the Rome mint. That theory doesn't take into account the difference in silver content between the coins when sorted by obverse legend. Moreover, Jérôme Mairat notes that the branch mint coins are found disproportionally higher in hoards of the Balkan regions. This suggests a mint closer to the troops fighting the Goths. This is one reason numismatists have suggested the branch mint was in Viminacium. For now, the intellectually honest thing to do is to term these coins the product of an "uncertain mint" (as Sear does).[/QUOTE]
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