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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Trebellianus, post: 3182851, member: 91569&quot;]Immensely regrettable that this is a topic we&#039;ll probably never know too much about. Mattingly speculated that the increased artistry of the coinage under Nero was due to him having imported Greek sculptors into the Roman mints -- I can only defer to the master, of course, but this view rather presupposes that the jump in quality between Claudius and Nero was enough of a discontinuity as to require explanation. To my mind some rather fine work was done under Claudius (although, of course, much of his output was highly mediocre).</p><p><br /></p><p>You also hear of that one die-cutter (whose <i>notname</i> escapes me) whose individual productions under Hadrian and Aelius can apparently be distinguished by their high quality.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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