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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2946879, member: 19463"]It is an excellent coin and worthy of its #1 position. I have special fondness for coins with something other than letters in the mintmark. #1 has the club reminding us that Maximianus was the Roman Hercules. While I have coins of Maximianus that could be shown, the appropriate one here is the Diocletian that accompanied #1 but in place of the club of Hercules has the thunderbolt of Jupiter (with whom Diocletian identified).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]718927[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2946879, member: 19463"]It is an excellent coin and worthy of its #1 position. I have special fondness for coins with something other than letters in the mintmark. #1 has the club reminding us that Maximianus was the Roman Hercules. While I have coins of Maximianus that could be shown, the appropriate one here is the Diocletian that accompanied #1 but in place of the club of Hercules has the thunderbolt of Jupiter (with whom Diocletian identified). [ATTACH=full]718927[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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