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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 6286221, member: 84744&quot;]Good question.&nbsp; From what I&#039;ve seen, they certainly exist for the joint reign period of Gallienus and Valerian.&nbsp; I&#039;m not convinced by what I&#039;ve seen from Gallienus&#039;s sole reign.&nbsp; That said, Göbl says they exist, and he would know better than me.&nbsp; I wonder, though, after seeing <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4957453" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4957453" rel="nofollow">this example</a> (6.98g) struck in billon:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1249032[/ATTACH]</p><p>The S C is the indicator that it&#039;s a dupondius, but in billon?!?&nbsp; Super weird.&nbsp; (For more sole reign weirdness, check out this coin: <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/aurelian-as-upgrade.373773/#post-5465579" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/aurelian-as-upgrade.373773/#post-5465579">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/aurelian-as-upgrade.373773/#post-5465579</a> .&nbsp; There&#039;s some more discussion in that thread showing that the radiate bronzes of Aurelian are double sestertii, not dupondii as they&#039;re sometimes listed.)</p><p><br /></p><p>There are also some dupondii claimed for Claudius II, though again I&#039;m not convinced.&nbsp; An example: <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3347758" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3347758" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3347758</a>.&nbsp; Seems to me this could be a cut-down double sestertius.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I think [USER=80783]@Julius Germanicus[/USER] is right that Postumus probably has the best claim to having produced the last dupondii... unless those are reduced weight double sestertii?&nbsp; I don&#039;t know what the hoard evidence indicates.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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