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Author Topic: Galerius follis with odd legend  (Read 259 times)

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Offline Mateusz W

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Galerius follis with odd legend
« on: March 03, 2023, 07:54:33 pm »
shouldn't it be IMP C VAL GAL?
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Offline Lech Stępniewski

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Re: Galerius follis with odd legend
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2023, 08:35:20 pm »
An interesting engraver's error. Alexandria?
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Offline Mateusz W

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Re: Galerius follis with odd legend
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2023, 08:43:32 pm »
It looks like there's ALE in exergue idd
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Re: Galerius follis with odd legend
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2023, 09:12:50 pm »
RIC VI ALEXANDRIA 72, officina A. In left field P (over A), in right field R.

This error is mentioned in RIC in footnote 5 on p. 674: "Vienna has two off. A coins (of different dies) with IMP C GAVL VL, &".
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