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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 2772706, member: 75937"]Thank you, Doug. The top one has obverse legend OL2, bust D2 with an obverse dot, and reverse legend RL1 and officina stigma; XXI in exergue. It is from Cyzicus and is Roll-Velez #16.*</p><p><br /></p><p>The bottom one has obverse legend OL1, bust B1, and reverse legend RL4 and officina epsilon delta; dot XXI in exergue. It is from Antioch and is Roll-Velez #23.</p><p><br /></p><p>*Roll-Velez comments:</p><p><br /></p><p>The entries from officina S in Table 1 (nos. 16–17) account for the large majority of RL1 specimens. This, along with the occurrence of a small bust, suggests perhaps that S is the earliest officina of Cyzicus striking the CONCORDIA MILITVM reverse. Officinae E and Δ are next, and perhaps striking in that order. The dot under the bust appears, notably, only on specimens with RL1 and RL2, all from Cyzicus, and all with no dots on either side of the XXI. This seems to indicate that the dot under the bust made an appearance not at the very onset of the Maximianus CONCORDIA MILITVM output but soon after, only to fade away again promptly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 2772706, member: 75937"]Thank you, Doug. The top one has obverse legend OL2, bust D2 with an obverse dot, and reverse legend RL1 and officina stigma; XXI in exergue. It is from Cyzicus and is Roll-Velez #16.* The bottom one has obverse legend OL1, bust B1, and reverse legend RL4 and officina epsilon delta; dot XXI in exergue. It is from Antioch and is Roll-Velez #23. *Roll-Velez comments: The entries from officina S in Table 1 (nos. 16–17) account for the large majority of RL1 specimens. This, along with the occurrence of a small bust, suggests perhaps that S is the earliest officina of Cyzicus striking the CONCORDIA MILITVM reverse. Officinae E and Δ are next, and perhaps striking in that order. The dot under the bust appears, notably, only on specimens with RL1 and RL2, all from Cyzicus, and all with no dots on either side of the XXI. This seems to indicate that the dot under the bust made an appearance not at the very onset of the Maximianus CONCORDIA MILITVM output but soon after, only to fade away again promptly.[/QUOTE]
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