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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 15546374, member: 128351&quot;]The &quot;Sponsiani&quot; coins have been discussed since the 18th c., some numismatists thought they were modern forgeries while others thought they were actually ancient semi-barbarous imitations minted in the 240s. We shall find books and articles in which Sponsianus is mentioned as an usurper under Philip the Arab, but we shall also find other books or articles not mentioning him, depending on wether the authors followed historians believing the coin was ancient or not. On CT, [USER=99554]@Ocatarinetabellatchitchix[/USER] wrote a good history of numismatic literature about Sponsianus: <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-legend-of-sponsianus.364019/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-legend-of-sponsianus.364019/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-legend-of-sponsianus.364019/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;Sponseanus&quot; mentioned by Donald L. Wasson in 2014 in the online World History Encyclopedia is just probably a misprint, for there is no source for spelling -eanus instead of -ianus. Excerpts from this online article were copied-pasted by other people posting on other websites or discussion forums, this is why the results of a googling of &quot;sponseanus&quot; are all the same sentence copied from Wasson 2014, or its translation in Portuguese for ex. If you narrow the search in just the book section, you&#039;ll find zero result: as far as Google knows, the name &quot;Sponseanus&quot; with an E was never printed on a paper page.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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