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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4774440, member: 89514&quot;]Nice acquisitions! I too have been collecting PONT denarii of Domitian for decades.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am a litttle mystified, however, that you can quote my explanation of this title, repeated below, yet still consider the question undecided. PONT cannot mean PONT MAX, because the supposed parallel of Nero is invalid: Nero&#039;s PONT only obv. dies were obviously meant to be coupled only with rev. legends beginning MAX. Ian Carradice immediately accepted this objection of mine when I brought it up in private correspondence, which is why there is no mention of the supposed Nero parallel in his and Buttrey&#039;s new edition of the Flavian RIC volume.</p><p><br /></p><p>Curtis Clay wrote this concerning the PONT conundrum: &#039;As to interpretation, I don&#039;t doubt that PONT on the denarii means that Domitian had not yet been elected Pontifex Maximus. Carradice was in error to think that Nero&#039;s bronzes sometimes have just PONT at a time when the emperor was certainly already Pontifex Maximus: those obv. dies with PONT were meant to go with reverses continuing MAX etc., and it was just sloppy work by the mint when a PONT obv. was coupled with a rev. not beginning MAX.&#039;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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