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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3293957, member: 85693"]In my limited experience, I've never seen a coherent pattern of debasement for Valerian (or Gallienus). </p><p><br /></p><p>Unless I screwed up my attributions, here are two examples of RIC 287c from the Antioch or Samosata mint, the common RESTITVT ORIENTIS type. The one on the left is fairly decent silver - at least it looks that way, and weighs 4.12 grams. The one of the right is pretty much AE as far as appearance goes, and weighs 3.77 grams. Same type from same mint. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]871442[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3293957, member: 85693"]In my limited experience, I've never seen a coherent pattern of debasement for Valerian (or Gallienus). Unless I screwed up my attributions, here are two examples of RIC 287c from the Antioch or Samosata mint, the common RESTITVT ORIENTIS type. The one on the left is fairly decent silver - at least it looks that way, and weighs 4.12 grams. The one of the right is pretty much AE as far as appearance goes, and weighs 3.77 grams. Same type from same mint. [ATTACH=full]871442[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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