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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nefarius Purpus, post: 9303482, member: 116505&quot;]The Sponsian paper is now published free open access here. Enjoy!</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0274285" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0274285" rel="nofollow">https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0274285</a></p><p><br /></p><p>We think the Sponsian coins and related pieces are authentic products of antiquity, for reasons given in the paper. </p><p><br /></p><p>We also provide a hypothesis for the historical Sponsian as an imperator in Dacia in the 260s to early 270s when the province became cut-off at the time of Gallienus and before it was abandoned and evacuated by Aurelian.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Sponsian coin has been put on display at The Hunterian, a museum in Glasgow for the first time, for those of you who might want to see it:</p><p><a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/visit/exhibitions/changingdisplays/sponsian/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/visit/exhibitions/changingdisplays/sponsian/" rel="nofollow">https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/visit/exhibitions/changingdisplays/sponsian/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Another is on public display at the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu, Romania</p><p><a href="http://www.brukenthalmuseum.ro/index_en.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.brukenthalmuseum.ro/index_en.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.brukenthalmuseum.ro/index_en.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Both museums have amazing coin collections and well worth a visit if you can.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can read more about the Third Century crisis and how Sponsian might fit in to the mayhem in my new book The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248-260</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Roman-Empire-in-Crisis-248260-Hardback/p/20486" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Roman-Empire-in-Crisis-248260-Hardback/p/20486" rel="nofollow">https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Roman-Empire-in-Crisis-248260-Hardback/p/20486</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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