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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 3104560, member: 88829&quot;]This reads like an auction lot description.&nbsp; May I ask whose description is this?&nbsp;&nbsp; When you look this coin up in BMCRE it is listed among the hybrids, as the description correctly notes, but there is nothing in BMCRE about an eastern mint.&nbsp; The describer added that.&nbsp; Basis? Similarly with regard to the OP coin and the lot description in the Gorny and Mosch sale (auf deutsch), which is the substance of your second post, except in that case they do not say anything about an uncertain eastern mint.&nbsp; (I assume that you made that post in order to give the rest of the list an English translation of the G&amp;M description.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Be that as it may, there is no dispute that this coin is known to have been sold before, nor that it is listed in BMCRE (hybrid J).&nbsp; But no authority on Roman Coins so far presented has listed this coin as the product of an Eastern mint.&nbsp; The most they will say is that it is a hybrid of uncertain origin.&nbsp; It is a long leap to go from that to the inference that it is the product of an eastern mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>The hybrids are listed in BMCRE because the specimens exist and are deemed to be ancient, but the editor rejects them as products of the mint at Rome, and regards them as dubious as authentic currency.&nbsp; They stay under that cloud until some kind of exonerating evidence comes along.&nbsp; Unsupported speculation is not evidence.&nbsp; Is that all we&#039;ve actually got here?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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