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Though so numerous and so preserved, any one who has made Roman coins his study, will be aware that the hoard does not contain any coin remarkable, either for the peculiar rarity, or the excellence of this type.The coins of this class and period differ chiefly in the letters which are found in the fields and exergues of their reverse; and for this reason I have paid some attention to the enumeration of them in the preeding lists. This remark is bourne out by an examination of the specimens in question. Thus, out of about 200 coins, I have met with about 120 varieties, of which the large proportion belong to Diocletianus, Maximianus, and Constantius Chlorus, one to Galerius Maximianus and one to Maximinus Daza, but which present, at the same time, only twenty-seven varieties, in the legends of their obverses, the other points in which they differ being confined to the letters in their fields and exergues.

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