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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2695504, member: 19463&quot;]The answer to this question will have to come from a serious study of the trace metals in the coins and we still will have to address options we don&#039;t face generally.&nbsp; We have several later examples where coins were made at Rome and bulk shipped to the intended city or where dies were made in one place and sent to other places.&nbsp; How we tell the difference will require study of the evidence and abandonment of preconceptions.&nbsp; I would have thought this could have been addressed mofre fully by Butcher and Ponting who were pioneers in the study of metals.&nbsp; From what I see so far, there is nothing certain placing the point of manufacture to either city as opposed to the other or a third.&nbsp; It would be interesting to see the current thinking on this in another century.&nbsp; I like the wording of Butcher and Ponting provided by DA.&nbsp; Mint location for &#039;Roman&#039; coins has always been a matter of study for numismatists.&nbsp; This will not likely change soon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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