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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 3194391, member: 74282&quot;]This is something that I&#039;ve always wondered as well. Some of the anonymous Victoriati seem to be relatively early, for instance the &quot;incuse&quot; victoriatus Cr. 96/1, which has a legend resembling some of the quadrigati and Crawford&#039;s &quot;An Early Hoard of Victoriati&quot;(NC 1970) includes many of the common fully-anonymous victoriati and only a few of the inscribed varieties. It contains multiple examples of the no-Spearhead(83/1b) variety, for instance, but none with the actual Spearhead symbol(83/1a). Based on the evidence from this hoard I suspect the fully-anonymous varieties were the earliest but that the transition to varieties with symbols happened gradually. A similar phenomenon seems to have happened with the &quot;peaked&quot; helmet denarii which seem to have started in Sicily or Southern Italy and spread from there, at least from my view of the hoard evidence.</p><p><br /></p><p>The question of the purpose of the marks is of course, still a bit mysterious. They seemingly acted as mintmarks but it doesn&#039;t seem like they were <i>just</i> mintmarks. I&#039;m not entirely sure how to resolve this question.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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