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<p>[QUOTE="David Atherton, post: 2806744, member: 82616"]Can I cheat and use an old and perhaps outdated mint attribution? </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Byzantium</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]655750[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Vespasian</b></p><p>AR Denarius, 3.32g</p><p>Ephesus mint, 71 AD</p><p>RIC 1424 (R3), BMC - , RSC - , RPC 827 (1 spec.)</p><p>Obv: IMP CAESAR VESPAS AVG COS III TR P P P; Head of Vespasian, laureate, r.</p><p>Rev: LIBERI IMP AVG VESPAS; Titus and Domitian veiled, togate, stg. front (heads l.), each with patera; below, BY mint mark</p><p>Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Harold Mattingly in both the first edition of RIC II and BMCRE II erroneously attributed the home mint for Vespasian's BY mint mark denarii as Byzantium. More recent scholarship has shown all the Eastern mint mark denarii to be the product of one mint - Ephesus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="David Atherton, post: 2806744, member: 82616"]Can I cheat and use an old and perhaps outdated mint attribution? [B]Byzantium[/B] [ATTACH=full]655750[/ATTACH] [B]Vespasian[/B] AR Denarius, 3.32g Ephesus mint, 71 AD RIC 1424 (R3), BMC - , RSC - , RPC 827 (1 spec.) Obv: IMP CAESAR VESPAS AVG COS III TR P P P; Head of Vespasian, laureate, r. Rev: LIBERI IMP AVG VESPAS; Titus and Domitian veiled, togate, stg. front (heads l.), each with patera; below, BY mint mark Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection. Harold Mattingly in both the first edition of RIC II and BMCRE II erroneously attributed the home mint for Vespasian's BY mint mark denarii as Byzantium. More recent scholarship has shown all the Eastern mint mark denarii to be the product of one mint - Ephesus.[/QUOTE]
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