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<p>[QUOTE="Victor_Clark, post: 8354262, member: 10613"]You have to make a distinction between continual circulation and reintroduction.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Constantine I coin below was struck in A.D. 312- 313 and more than a 1,000 years later it was countermarked as a Spanish 4 maravedis in the 1600's</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1482636[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Coins struck under Constantine the Great (323-337AD) were still in circulation in remote places of southern France during Napoleon III. (1852-1870).</p><p><br /></p><p>Friedensburg, <b>Die Munze in der Kulturgeschichte</b>, pg. 3</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In 1916, Arthur E. Robinson was in the Sudan, and his "Nubian" servant brought him some small coins which still circulated west of the Nile. An assortment of the coins consisted of--</p><p><br /></p><p>Ptolemaic (2 specimens), BM cat. 106, 32-5; Svoronos 1426.</p><p>Hadrian (Alex.) BM cat. 346, 21; Dattari 6299.</p><p>Probus (Alex.) BM cat. 315, 2435; Svoronos 5557.</p><p>Diocletian, BM cat. 324, 2510; Dattari 5693.</p><p>Constantine I, not in BM cat.; Dattari 6054.</p><p>Turkish, Early Othmanli circ. A.D. 1000 (clipped).</p><p><br /></p><p>Arthur E. Robinson, "False and Imitation Roman Coins", <b>The Journal of Antiquarian Association of the British Isles 2</b>, no. 3 (1931) : 102.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>my page on this topic--</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/Countermarked/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/Countermarked/" rel="nofollow">http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/Countermarked/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Victor_Clark, post: 8354262, member: 10613"]You have to make a distinction between continual circulation and reintroduction. The Constantine I coin below was struck in A.D. 312- 313 and more than a 1,000 years later it was countermarked as a Spanish 4 maravedis in the 1600's [ATTACH=full]1482636[/ATTACH] Coins struck under Constantine the Great (323-337AD) were still in circulation in remote places of southern France during Napoleon III. (1852-1870). Friedensburg, [B]Die Munze in der Kulturgeschichte[/B], pg. 3 In 1916, Arthur E. Robinson was in the Sudan, and his "Nubian" servant brought him some small coins which still circulated west of the Nile. An assortment of the coins consisted of-- Ptolemaic (2 specimens), BM cat. 106, 32-5; Svoronos 1426. Hadrian (Alex.) BM cat. 346, 21; Dattari 6299. Probus (Alex.) BM cat. 315, 2435; Svoronos 5557. Diocletian, BM cat. 324, 2510; Dattari 5693. Constantine I, not in BM cat.; Dattari 6054. Turkish, Early Othmanli circ. A.D. 1000 (clipped). Arthur E. Robinson, "False and Imitation Roman Coins", [B]The Journal of Antiquarian Association of the British Isles 2[/B], no. 3 (1931) : 102. my page on this topic-- [URL]http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/Countermarked/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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