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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3915693, member: 84744"]Hugh Cloke has a <a href="http://www.hookmoor.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/45-YN4-Chapter-3-HC.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hookmoor.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/45-YN4-Chapter-3-HC.pdf" rel="nofollow">paper</a> on the "loins draped" variety. Apparently it is derived from issues of Carausius and Allectus, and first appeared on tetrarchal folles occasionally in London - though it's very rare on the big early ones. From there it made the transition to Lugdunum and Trier, as on your example, and became quite common after that. I believe yours is the transitional issue at Trier.</p><p><br /></p><p>Besides the draped loins, these also feature military boots.</p><p><br /></p><p>I picked up this early Max London follis in a group lot and was excited because it had the LON mintmark. When I showed Hugh (he's doing a die study) he was excited because it has draped loins and military boots. I had no idea! But it is unique as far as he knows and will get a new number in Cloke & Toone - among the earliest London folles before the engravers had settled on the details.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1032096[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3915693, member: 84744"]Hugh Cloke has a [URL='http://www.hookmoor.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/45-YN4-Chapter-3-HC.pdf']paper[/URL] on the "loins draped" variety. Apparently it is derived from issues of Carausius and Allectus, and first appeared on tetrarchal folles occasionally in London - though it's very rare on the big early ones. From there it made the transition to Lugdunum and Trier, as on your example, and became quite common after that. I believe yours is the transitional issue at Trier. Besides the draped loins, these also feature military boots. I picked up this early Max London follis in a group lot and was excited because it had the LON mintmark. When I showed Hugh (he's doing a die study) he was excited because it has draped loins and military boots. I had no idea! But it is unique as far as he knows and will get a new number in Cloke & Toone - among the earliest London folles before the engravers had settled on the details. [ATTACH=full]1032096[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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