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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Suarez, post: 4353447, member: 99239&quot;]Thank you for the research on this, especially the early &quot;contact tracing&quot;!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d like to clear up a misconception however in that his coinage was never recalled. In fact, no one emperor&#039;s coinage ever was. It&#039;s one of those myths that gets repeated, along with supposed examples of <i>damnatio memoriae</i> coins, which have the ring of truth to it but have no historical nor logical basis. </p><p><br /></p><p>The only coinage recalls known to have taken place all involved indiscriminate culling of currency. Beloved and hated emperors alike were filtered out en masse without any effort to cherry pick based on names or designs. Two possible exceptions may - and this is just an educated guess on my part - be empresses Annia Faustina and Tranquillina whose surviving coins seem abnormally low for the period with no apparently compelling reason. Anyone with enough time and determination can shed light on this (I personally find die studies groaningly boring unfortunately).</p><p><br /></p><p>Valens&#039;s coinage is rare simply because of the short period of time, the limited number of mints producing the coins and the fact that as junior emperor he would have received only a small share of the output.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rasiel[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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