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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4488090, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;m quite happy to drop back to &#039;Syria&#039; for safety but we lose the distiction we had previously between the COS dated issues and the IMP dated issues even though those may not be separate anyway.&nbsp; I see the rush to Antioch as failing to address the period when Pescennius was minting coins at the same time as Septimius (the pre-COS dated issues).&nbsp; Both were not using the same mint at the same time.&nbsp; There seems to be a great desire to discredit previous BM bosses, especially Mattingly.&nbsp; I suspect both are wrong so the same thing is to say we do not know rather than to make yet another guess.&nbsp; My guess would include a travelling mint but for the time being I prefer to retain Mattingly&#039;s guesses in quotation marks (&quot;Emesa&quot;) rather in the same way that we still use Sellwood for Parthians even though some of his king assignments are out of date.&nbsp; &quot;Syria&quot; works unless we are going to move some issues the Caesarea in Cappadocia so &quot;East&#039;&quot; would be better.&nbsp; I have not seen work proving how many different mints there were or addressing possible relocation of staff from one place/ruler to another.&nbsp; We are a bit short on well studied material to state anything with assurance. </p><p><br /></p><p>Homeless coins (once &#039;Emesa&#039; but now wandering in the Syrian wilderness):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1113838[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1113839[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1113840[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1113841[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1113842[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1113843[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1113844[/ATTACH] ..and a few Domnas&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1113835[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1113836[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1113837[/ATTACH] </p><p>When I started collecting these, we &#039;knew&#039; so much more than we do today.&nbsp; I am not aware of any professional numismatists working on this seriously (meaning working on a book) but I would not expect them to tell me if they were.&nbsp; I do not expect to see the questions resolved in my lifetime.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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