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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 7939106, member: 120820&quot;]I&#039;ve tried contacting Sig. Garraffo on academia.edu about the inventory catalog, but no response so far. The lastest update seems to be his 2016 report you quote from which has 83,000 (out of 108,000 total) coins individually attributed and entered into a computer database (by the Italian team doing this work)&nbsp; ... with this information being withheld from public access due to permission not having been given by the Libyan government.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a real shame if this data never sees the light of day, since it contains an unprecedented number of coins from the Rome mint both prior to Constantine&#039;s taking control in c.313AD and after. A full 10% of the attributed coins (8,607 out of 82,713) are from the Rome mint from the Constantinian period 313-318 AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>All we have in terms of information on individual coins from the hoard are maybe a dozen &quot;rare or unlisted&quot; coins, and a sampler of a couple dozen more common ones. Unfortunately we don&#039;t know how complete this published group of unlisted coins is meant to be, nor how good the researchers were in identifying rare/noteworthy Constantinian types.</p><p><br /></p><p>From what&#039;s been published, what&#039;s noteworthy is how *few* unlisted/rare Constantinian reverse types were among the 8,607 Rome mint coins from the 313-318 AD time period. From the &quot;RP&quot; issue of 313 AD there are at least 7 known victory-celebration reverse types (3 unlisted), none of which have been reported from Misurata. From the following &quot;R*P&quot; issue there are 3 reverse types, all unlisted, of which MIsurata only reports two specimens of the &quot;LIBERATOR ORBIS&quot; type, which isn&#039;t even that rare (I&#039;ve recorded over 20 specimens).</p><p><br /></p><p>Hopefully the researchers were just kidding with the picture below, but it&#039;s rather disconcerting that the detailed catalog is being deliberately withheld.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1373759[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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