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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1865453, member: 42773&quot;]I don&#039;t have RIC available to me at the moment, but if I recall correctly, both the soldiers/standard and Vota reverse types occur from a number of different mints, which suggests a broad intentionality. In the case of the soldiers/standard reverse, there may have been an attempt to indicate that the VRBS coins were equivalent in denomination to their regal counterparts.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Vota mules are smaller, with the same general dimensions of the two-victories types. There would have been no confusion as to their denomination since they were the smallest coins around.</p><p><br /></p><p>But there is something to be said for the possibility of hasty mass production due to economic imperative. These mules are carelessly made by Roman standards. I searched high and low for the best examples I could find, and these are all I could come up with.</p><p><br /></p><p>An VRBS/Vota mule...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s27.postimg.org/brfdcul1f/VRBSvot.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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