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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3297389, member: 44316&quot;]I added another mintmark to my site on Justinian&#039;s mintmarks at Antioch. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is large at 36-33 mm [larger than a US half dollar which is 30.6 mm; a silver dollar is 38.1 mm] and 19.70 grams.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]872902[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is year 21 = 547/8. Long before Antioch had changed its name to Theopolis (Theoupolis) [See <a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html" rel="nofollow">that site</a> for why]. The mintmark&#039;s first letter is odd. Regular shaped T&#039;s had been used earlier, so there is no accepted explanation for this first symbol which must have a &quot;T&quot; or a &quot;TH&quot; sound, followed by an &quot;H&quot; which is a Greek eta, for our E, and then UΠ (Π with a tiny o above and a slash through its right side, indicating an abbreviation of &quot;POLIS&quot;.) THEOUPOLIS. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sear 220. DO I Justinian 218B.&nbsp; Hahn 145a year 21.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have written CT about Justinian&#039;s coins at Antioch before:</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-antioch-mint-under-justinian.319008/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-antioch-mint-under-justinian.319008/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-antioch-mint-under-justinian.319008/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If you didn&#039;t add your coins to the thread then, I wish you would now![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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