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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7921478, member: 19463&quot;]The style of the portraits from this period IMP II and the later COS II coins does suggest a link between the mints.&nbsp; The tiny dots only on IMP II and a few other things suggests to me that they were separate mints.&nbsp; Perhaps the travelling mint with COS settled down in wherever &#039;Laodicea&#039; was located? The more I learn, the less I &#039;know&#039;.&nbsp; My new goal is total ignorance.&nbsp; That goal seems achievable.&nbsp; The two IMP coins have different patterns of these dots but it is too soon to say they are random.&nbsp; The BM coin has a distinct pattern of two mirror image sets of three.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I can see how someone skill in making assumptions could catalog this coin as a COS II.&nbsp; Did they also miss the PERET?&nbsp; I have never seen that on a COS II coin so that should have been taken as a clue to read the letters.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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