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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4232327, member: 19463&quot;]We can not discuss this with any validity unless and until some publication of what was there is made.&nbsp; If all the coins were from one mint and all the coins were Maximianus and Constantius I as Caesar, we might learn some interesting things about die states and mint operations but nothing about how the coins served in the economy.&nbsp; There really are not all that many compared to what must have been made at each of the several mints on each of the many days that the pair ruled in that part of the empire.&nbsp; It would be interesting first to know if the group included coins in the name of the Eastern pair of Tetrarchs (Diocletian and Galerius) since the wesstern mints did strike for them also.&nbsp; If the hoard consists of 60,000 coins of one mint all made in one month (week?, day??) it will tell us completely different things than an accumulated hoard of circulating coins like the 81,000 silvers of 60 rulers from Reka Devnia.&nbsp; I hope the Spanish authorities comes up with the funding necessary to pay their workers to clean and classify all these.&nbsp; These jobs will cost a lot and they won&#039;t clean themselves.&nbsp; Realistically, I expect them to park the coins in a museum basement until long after I am gone. </p><p><br /></p><p>I own no PT mintmark coin of the pair.&nbsp; acsearch has them.</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1241057" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1241057" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1241057</a></p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/27/1423/1241057.m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1896457" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1896457" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1896457</a></p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/93/1949/1896457.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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