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Message:: [QUOTE="lrbguy, post: 3118951, member: 88829"]Siscia had crossed my mind too.  However, when did the mint activity at Samosata come to an end?  They were busy during the reign of Gallienus, but I am not familiar enough with all that to even speculate.  However, if you want to stretch a bit, allow me to raise a rather speculative question about the use of the letter "C." In Latin the "C" and "S" are quite distinct.  In modern English we sometimes give the "C" a phonetic value similar to "S." Nice concern.  I know of nothing like that in Latin in which the "C" was always hard and more phonetically akin to "K."  CAESAR.  But in the Greek alphabet of the third century A.D., especially in provincial coin inscriptions, the "C" frequently served as an "S" as in CEBASTE.  Could it be that the mintmark C* and your mark S* are intentionally (or inadvertantly) equivalent representing Siscia or Samosata instead of Cyzicus?  (Greek: KYZIKOS)  We know that in the 4th century the marks for Cyzicus were always rendered with a "K"  so a Latin spelling would be a bit exceptional.  Of course, things were not so standardized at the time of Aurelian, or so it seems from the diversity of mark forms.  RIC notwithstanding, what is the strength of the evidence that C* represented product from the mint at Cyzicus?[/QUOTE]