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<p>[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 4023150, member: 86498"]In response to NewStyleKing. I will start of with a story. Back in 1983 I became interested in the coins of Carrhae in Mesopotamia. I bought a few and started studying them. Fairly soon I became aware of the limitations of the relevant volume in the BMC Greek. In 1989 I went to the B.M. to study their collection. Surprisingly it had not changed much since the BM Volume was published in the Mid 1930's. So I pointed out that 1.Over half their coins attributed to Cararaclla were in fact Elagabalus. 2. All the "Latin" legend coins of Caracalla were in fact from the mint of Edessa. As I was Nobody from Nowheresville Western Canada, I rather doubt they took me all that seriously. My point is that probably at the time there were maybe 2 or three people interested in the coins of that region and we were all amateurs. The essential truth is that while the subject matter of ancient numismatics is vast and very complex the number of people studying it as a profession is extremely small. Thus it is possible that no academic even looked at those coins in over 50 years. </p><p> As for your variety. It is indeed possible that one or more of the previous owners did notice that it was a variant but were unable to successfully communicate that information to the outside world. One I guess should be thankful that a number of people decided that the coin was worth preserving and kept it in their collections for a while.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 4023150, member: 86498"]In response to NewStyleKing. I will start of with a story. Back in 1983 I became interested in the coins of Carrhae in Mesopotamia. I bought a few and started studying them. Fairly soon I became aware of the limitations of the relevant volume in the BMC Greek. In 1989 I went to the B.M. to study their collection. Surprisingly it had not changed much since the BM Volume was published in the Mid 1930's. So I pointed out that 1.Over half their coins attributed to Cararaclla were in fact Elagabalus. 2. All the "Latin" legend coins of Caracalla were in fact from the mint of Edessa. As I was Nobody from Nowheresville Western Canada, I rather doubt they took me all that seriously. My point is that probably at the time there were maybe 2 or three people interested in the coins of that region and we were all amateurs. The essential truth is that while the subject matter of ancient numismatics is vast and very complex the number of people studying it as a profession is extremely small. Thus it is possible that no academic even looked at those coins in over 50 years. As for your variety. It is indeed possible that one or more of the previous owners did notice that it was a variant but were unable to successfully communicate that information to the outside world. One I guess should be thankful that a number of people decided that the coin was worth preserving and kept it in their collections for a while.[/QUOTE]
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