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Diocletian from Ticinum
Molinari:
Hello Friends,
My students are working on Roman coin attributions and we've found a variety not on Wildwinds or OCRE. I don't have RIC but I'm wondering if someone can consult it, or let us know if the coin is published somewhere--it would be really cool if this mintmark was unrecorded.
OBV: IMP CC VAL DIOCLETIANVS PF AVG
REV: HERCVLI CONSERVAT
MINTMARK: QX IT (we find only QXXIT)
I thought perhaps the die was clogged at the second X but it appears to be blank or perhaps a faint dot.
Cf. RIC 212-217.
Molinari:
A better shot of the reverse:
Lech Stępniewski:
RIC V/2 212 QXXIT in exergue (the outline of the second X is still visible)
obverse legend 1
bust type F
fourth officina (all six officinae listed)
shanxi:
I also think that a clogged die is the most probable explanation. On my computer it looks like a faint X.
http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.5.dio.212
Molinari:
Thank you--at first I thought perhaps a dot but now I too think I see the outlines of the second, clogged X.
Nick
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