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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2949353, member: 57495&quot;]Your coin has a taller and narrower portrait.&nbsp; You do see portraits in this style on various issues, including the Moneta, all commonly attributed to Trier.&nbsp; Postumus struck a massive amount of coinage and would have employed numerous die engravers and mintworkers.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Bourne&#039;s paper brings up the theories of several authors, including one that suggests the Moneta issue was the product of a separate, &#039;traveling&#039; mint.&nbsp; Another theory, which I find more convincing, is that it was issued by a third officina, at least initially located at the same mint (Trier), and using existing workers and equipment.&nbsp; Apparently, obverse die links have been found between examples of the Moneta issue and examples from earlier emissions.&nbsp; Bourne brings up the possibility that this third officina may later have been &#039;spun off&#039; to become the Cologne mint.&nbsp; This would seem to make sense in the context of the rare issues that have Moneta on the reverse, but the legend COL CL AGRIP, for Colonia Claudia Agrippinensium.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure if I&#039;m being very coherent, but it&#039;s all there in the Bourne paper I linked to earlier.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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