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<p>[QUOTE="David@PCC, post: 4107070, member: 80556"]They are called controls, and there are thousands of them. I started a <a href="http://allcoinage.com/controls.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://allcoinage.com/controls.php" rel="nofollow">page</a> for Seleucid coins, but still have hundreds to add. Almost all will have either a control or a mint mark. Yours has the phi lambda that [USER=98035]@Finn235[/USER] alluded to (many I guess on what the monograms include) and could be the initials of a mint worker, some reference to the mint or workshop, ect. We really don't know in many cases.</p><p><br /></p><p>The delta on the right is a secondary control and there are 13 different known just for this type. Could it stand for Antioch? It's possible, but other tetradrachms from this mint exclude an A control.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="David@PCC, post: 4107070, member: 80556"]They are called controls, and there are thousands of them. I started a [URL='http://allcoinage.com/controls.php']page[/URL] for Seleucid coins, but still have hundreds to add. Almost all will have either a control or a mint mark. Yours has the phi lambda that [USER=98035]@Finn235[/USER] alluded to (many I guess on what the monograms include) and could be the initials of a mint worker, some reference to the mint or workshop, ect. We really don't know in many cases. The delta on the right is a secondary control and there are 13 different known just for this type. Could it stand for Antioch? It's possible, but other tetradrachms from this mint exclude an A control.[/QUOTE]
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