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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1682617, member: 19463&quot;]If you assemble the complete set from that mint issued at that time, all have the gamma in the field and all have CONS starting the mintmark followed by A, B, gamma, etc. up to IA which is the Greek numeral for 11.&nbsp; At that time they had 11 workshops making these.&nbsp; In other periods and other mints the number of shops varied from one to 15.&nbsp; It was not customary to show the shop in two places but there are a couple exceptions to this (which got pages on my site to explain the code if anyone cares).&nbsp; The only additive was 5+4 which is how they chose to avoid the theta.&nbsp; In that day 13 was not an unlucky number but I recall as a kid staying in a hotel that did not have a 13th floor (the elevator went from 12 to 14).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Numismatists in places like the British Museum have worked out these systems by virtue of having thousands of coins at hand.&nbsp; If you read footnotes in RIC sometimes they will mention how many coins they saw with each shop number.&nbsp; Understanding the meaning of each of the letters in various places on a coin requires looking at many coins and seeing what changed between each of them.&nbsp; Then you can start with questions like why and when.&nbsp; Compare the coin below which has the gamma and the CONS but is workshop 11 (IA) and a star following it which caused RIC to place it one issue later than the theta coin that has no star there (but it does have a large dot in the field that I can&#039;t explain - help appreciated here).&nbsp; The other coin has the field dot but is shop A (#1) so it shares an RIC number with the theta (#9) coin but not with the IA* (#11) example.&nbsp; Coins with the large gamma in the field weigh more than the ones with delta or S but less than the ones with A.&nbsp; I do not know or own examples of the complete system of weight reductions.&nbsp; These differences in letters and dots are how Dane Kurth came up with her estimate of 2200 versions of the falling horseman coins.&nbsp; She may have missed a few for all I know.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]252265.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]252266.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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