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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gil-galad, post: 2044430, member: 44154&quot;]That video is much more useful than you might think as it covers a lot of basics. Think of it as a primer before moving on. Coins and history are linked, believe it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mint marks denote a particular mint city and often the workshop as well. The mint mark system more or less started to be mainstream in the Tetrachy era, through the Constantinian dynasty all the way to the end of the Byzantine Empire. Lots of information about this topic exists.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]374039[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Divus Constantine AE3/4. 337-340 AD. 15mm, 1.5g</p><p><br /></p><p>OBV: DV CONSTANTINVS PF AVGG, Veiled head right. </p><p><br /></p><p>REV: Constantine in quadriga right, the hand of God, upper center, grasping the chariot, CONS in ex.</p><p><br /></p><p>REF: RIC VIII Constantinopolis 37</p><p><br /></p><p>This is one such example of a posthumous coin. A coin that commemorates the life and death of a emperor. This such coin commemorates Constantine I ascending to the heavens by the hand of God.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the reverse of the coin under the quadriga is CONS, CONS is the mintmark for the city Constantinopolis (Constantinople).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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