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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 7934598, member: 84744&quot;]Interesting question, here&#039;s a first issue follis from Alexandria to help contemplate it:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1372390[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>It seems the first folles came out before Domitianus (&quot;DD&quot;) revolted; DD then produced both folles and revived tetradrachms (as well as new hexadrachms? and octodrachms).&nbsp; So there&#039;s a question about continuity from pre-DD coins to DD, and another from from DD to post-DD coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>One commonality between the DD-produced portraits on both folles and tets is the pattern of divergent wreath ties - that is, one of the ties falls down to the neck and takes a sharp turn to travel rightwards.&nbsp; This continues after DD on the folles.&nbsp; As you can see on the above coin, the wreath ties are parallel - that&#039;s what distinguishes this pre-DD first issue coin (RIC 14a) from the more commonly encountered (and later) RIC 26a.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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