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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 7932257, member: 97383&quot;]I&#039;ve got some excellent folles of Diocletian but none from the Thessalonica Mint <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. High grade examples from this mint are not easy to find <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I posted all the coins pictured below more than once but will enjoy posting them again for this thread <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1371673[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1371674[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1371675[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1371676[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1371677[/ATTACH] </p><p>I bought this coin from a Harlan Berk bid/buy sale over 30 years ago &amp; later saw it pictured in David Sear&#039;s book <b>Roman Coins and Their Values, Volume IV, 2011. </b>I sent an email to David asking where he got the coin, but he couldn&#039;t remember <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Maybe it came from an old Freeman &amp; Sear sale <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />? </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1371688[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Diocletian, AD 284-305 (struck AD 303-305), London Mint. AE Nummus: 10.17 gm, 28 mm, 6 h. RIC 28a; C&amp;T 3.01.005. Rare. <i>Ex Roma 72, lot 1403; Ex Brian Henry Grover Collection</i></b></p><p>I was impressed with the portrait on this coin &amp; not bothered by the spot of corrosion on the reverse <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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