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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1771213, member: 19463&quot;]I would suggest as a next step that you become familiar with the concept of mint marks as they appear on Roman coins of the late 3rd and following centuries.&nbsp; It is not a simple subject and rules changed frequently.&nbsp; Your coin had no reverse &#039;legends&#039;.&nbsp; All the letters were mintmark.&nbsp; Over time, Rome used over two dozen mints but the most at one time was about 15.&nbsp; City names occasionally were changed and what data was included in the marks varied greatly as did the structure of each mint.&nbsp; Most mints were divided into more than one workshop (officina) which were indicated in the mintmark in one of several different ways.&nbsp; I never wrote a page on the subject but the following might give an idea how complex the system can be.</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Mint%20Marks" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Mint%20Marks" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Mint Marks</a></p><p>Remember, however, that this chart gives the whole list over many years so the first step is to determine which cities were in operation and which system they used when the coin in question was used.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>...and here is the big part:&nbsp; There are a few things that we simply do not know.&nbsp; For example, it is not certain what the branch meant on that particular coin.&nbsp; Some scholars have theories about some markings but there is still room for study into codes from any given mint in any given year.&nbsp; &#039;Why&#039; is not always an easy question.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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