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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 3104943, member: 88829&quot;]That there may have been as yet unidentified mints to the east of Rome is not hard to imagine.&nbsp; What I object to is calling everything that is stylistically different from the &quot;normal&quot; a product of some non-specific hypothetical eastern mint.&nbsp; It betrays a poor methodology based on conjecture more than observation. </p><p><br /></p><p>Style discrimination is simple observation, but associating a style type with a particular mint is not based on single isolated specimens, but on patterns.&nbsp; More importantly, since ancient counterfeits made from copycat dies are stylistically distinct too, it is necessary to discriminate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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