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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 2773613, member: 75937"]Okay, now the interesting update to this story. </p><p><br /></p><p>Prof. Roll-Velez looked at my coin and compared it to the two examples he was able to find for his study. </p><p><br /></p><p>He noticed <a href="http://www.romanorum.com/maximianus/9G/XXIdot/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.romanorum.com/maximianus/9G/XXIdot/index.html" rel="nofollow">this coin</a>, from his database:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]640117[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Look familiar? Here's my coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]640118[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Prof. Roll-Valez noticed the photo I sent him matched the one he used for his study. He had failed to notice the dot after MILITVM in the reverse inscription.</p><p><br /></p><p>He writes:</p><p><br /></p><p>"... it turns out that my example is not just similar, but exactly the same coin as yours. They are one and the same. As it turns out, the painful truth is that I missed the dot when I was writing my paper. Now that's pretty embarrassing. I spent almost a year writing it and comparing pictures and checking and double-checking the information against the coin photos. Over and over again. There was so much information to be analyzed that I almost gave up a few times. And yet, I did miss that dot. Ironic, given that much of the paper is about just that: dots. If it weren't for you I would never have found out! So I have to thank you for that, but also I have to admit to the gravest mistake I made in the paper (so far). Oh, well... A year writing it, two years waiting for publication, and now a lifetime of regret!! Ok, perhaps not, but it's certainly very embarrassing indeed. So forget everything I told you about all the different theories I would have had to re-think if I had the coin when I was writing the paper, because I did have the coin. I just missed that little detail. Wow."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 2773613, member: 75937"]Okay, now the interesting update to this story. Prof. Roll-Velez looked at my coin and compared it to the two examples he was able to find for his study. He noticed [URL='http://www.romanorum.com/maximianus/9G/XXIdot/index.html']this coin[/URL], from his database: [ATTACH=full]640117[/ATTACH] Look familiar? Here's my coin: [ATTACH=full]640118[/ATTACH] Prof. Roll-Valez noticed the photo I sent him matched the one he used for his study. He had failed to notice the dot after MILITVM in the reverse inscription. He writes: "... it turns out that my example is not just similar, but exactly the same coin as yours. They are one and the same. As it turns out, the painful truth is that I missed the dot when I was writing my paper. Now that's pretty embarrassing. I spent almost a year writing it and comparing pictures and checking and double-checking the information against the coin photos. Over and over again. There was so much information to be analyzed that I almost gave up a few times. And yet, I did miss that dot. Ironic, given that much of the paper is about just that: dots. If it weren't for you I would never have found out! So I have to thank you for that, but also I have to admit to the gravest mistake I made in the paper (so far). Oh, well... A year writing it, two years waiting for publication, and now a lifetime of regret!! Ok, perhaps not, but it's certainly very embarrassing indeed. So forget everything I told you about all the different theories I would have had to re-think if I had the coin when I was writing the paper, because I did have the coin. I just missed that little detail. Wow."[/QUOTE]
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