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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 2889254, member: 88829&quot;]The mint at Ambianum was first established by Magnentius in 350.&nbsp; Too late for the city commemoratives.&nbsp; It never issued the Urbs Roma.&nbsp; Moreover, the mint mark on your coin appears to start with the letters SM, which was not used at Ambianum.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will show a few of the less known Urbs Roma types:</p><p><br /></p><p>The first is from Arelate/Constantia in a full AE3 module showing the double spearpoint (or as I like to call it, a pine tree) between the stars.&nbsp; Arelate used a number of symbols between the stars, but this is one of the rarest:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]693958[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The next is from Nicomedia with a series of three dots between the stars.&nbsp; Practically all of the UR commems with the three dots came from Nicomedia.&nbsp; This device appears on some coins from all of the officinae issuing UR commems from Nicomedia.:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]693961[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The next three coins are often mistaken for mules, hybrids, because they make use of reverses used on earlier coin types.&nbsp; However they are not hybrids, but coins intentionally designed with &quot;retro&quot; reverses.&nbsp; They were issued by the sons of Constantine after the old man had passed away, and all appear in a reduced module closer to the range of an AE4 than the earlier coins.&nbsp; The first two make use of a single standard GLORIA EXERCITVS type.&nbsp; Both come from eastern mints near the center of the empire:</p><p><br /></p><p>The first is from Constantinople:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]693963[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The second is from Heraclea:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]693964[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, here is another reduced module example with a Vota inscription: VOT/XX/MVLT/XXX from Heraclea:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]693965[/ATTACH]</p><p>Flan reduction due to inflation caused the mint marks on these small module pieces to get crowded off, so examples showing a discernible mark are more desirable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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