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Message:: [QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 2846386, member: 44316"]Here is another very common type:[ATTACH=full]674670[/ATTACH]14 mm. Constantius II, struck 347-348, just before the FEL TEMP REPARATIO reform of 348 and after, Kent thought, a gap of six years without the production of AE coins. This one is from Antioch: SMANTI, RIC VIII Antioch 113. The type is "C4" and from fifteen (15!) officina. Fifteen officina can produce a lot of coins (and that's not counting the other mints). This example has the gorgeous (natural, not recent) "desert patina" or, as I call it, "black and tan patina" so often seen on coins from that part of Syria.[/QUOTE]