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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 2772644, member: 75937"]I heard back from Prof. Roll-Vélez, who says,</p><p><br /></p><p>"The one truly interesting thing about your coin ... is that it does have a dot at the end of the reverse legend. There are no examples on my table with this, and if there were they would be under the RL1b, which is not stated in the article because I didn't find any specimens. So that makes your coin quite interesting, and I wish I had seen it before I wrote the article! Then again, this kind makes sense, given that officina gamma, as I state in p. 235, is "rather unusual for the CONCORDIA MILITVM..." Perhaps this is also from the mint of Siscia after all, so that would have to be another paper ..." </p><p><br /></p><p>So, this was the first example that Roll-Vélez had ever seen of this reverse legend with the dot for officina gamma. It has implications as a mint mark, and raises the question as to whether it was minted in Cyzicus or Siscia. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, little ol' me--a curious collector who compared his coin to others described in the literature--was able to discover something new.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 2772644, member: 75937"]I heard back from Prof. Roll-Vélez, who says, "The one truly interesting thing about your coin ... is that it does have a dot at the end of the reverse legend. There are no examples on my table with this, and if there were they would be under the RL1b, which is not stated in the article because I didn't find any specimens. So that makes your coin quite interesting, and I wish I had seen it before I wrote the article! Then again, this kind makes sense, given that officina gamma, as I state in p. 235, is "rather unusual for the CONCORDIA MILITVM..." Perhaps this is also from the mint of Siscia after all, so that would have to be another paper ..." So, this was the first example that Roll-Vélez had ever seen of this reverse legend with the dot for officina gamma. It has implications as a mint mark, and raises the question as to whether it was minted in Cyzicus or Siscia. So, little ol' me--a curious collector who compared his coin to others described in the literature--was able to discover something new.[/QUOTE]
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