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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 2945303, member: 31620&quot;]I am actively studying the &quot;Laodicea&quot; early issues (IMP II and IMP VIII) and there is much that is challenging when it comes to cataloging them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The current thinking by most is that all coins ending COS something are from the same mint. This is just because that&#039;s a pattern that fits. Until evidence turns up that convincingly breaks this pattern then that is the current best thinking.</p><p><br /></p><p>The IMP II series is though to be from a separate mint. The style is subtly different to the makority of the COS series and there are no (sort of but that&#039;s another story) reverse die links to tie them together. </p><p><br /></p><p>The IMP VIII series is tought to be linked to the IMP II series because VIII follows II. We don&#039;t know this to be true.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do all COS coins come from the same mint? I don&#039;t know for sure but I strongly suspect that this isn&#039;t necessarily so. </p><p><br /></p><p>Do all the IMP II series come from the same mint? I suspect that this is the case based on how closely their styles are related. A thorough die analysis is probably needed to see how many of the obverse dies can be linked together through reverse die links. I have started some work in this area but it is early days.</p><p><br /></p><p>The IMP VIII are all lumped together because they all end in VIII. There is a <b>lot </b>of variation in style and there is variation in obverse legends here too. More study is needed to see which dies are linked and which are not. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have mentioned that I think that these two coins are possibly barbarous but as Doug states this is just a wild hypothesis. Do they fit the norm? No. But then I am not sure that I know exactly what the norm is. By the way I don&#039;t mean to denigrate these coins by calling them barbarous. They could be a significant part of the puzzle that we simply cannot see yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is why I so enjoy collecting this little sub-area.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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