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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3118959, member: 75937&quot;]I concur. Siscia and Cyzicus are more than 1300 km apart and it&#039;s weird the coins are so similar. I wondered myself at perhaps an engraving error because of phonetics.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only evidence that I have about the mintmarks is what&#039;s in RIC and MER/RIC, which attribute the C* to Cyzicus. <a href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/search/advanced?tempRIC=&amp;asmSelect0=&amp;asmSelect1=&amp;Person=Aurelianus&amp;asmSelect2=&amp;asmSelect3=&amp;asmSelect4=&amp;asmSelect5=&amp;asmSelect6=&amp;asmSelect7=&amp;asmSelect8=&amp;asmSelect9=&amp;ReverseMark=%E2%80%93%2F%E2%80%93%2F%2FC*&amp;asmSelect10=&amp;asmSelect11=&amp;BustDescription=&amp;ReverseDescription=&amp;Note=&amp;Reference=&amp;page=1&amp;mod=result" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/search/advanced?tempRIC=&amp;asmSelect0=&amp;asmSelect1=&amp;Person=Aurelianus&amp;asmSelect2=&amp;asmSelect3=&amp;asmSelect4=&amp;asmSelect5=&amp;asmSelect6=&amp;asmSelect7=&amp;asmSelect8=&amp;asmSelect9=&amp;ReverseMark=%E2%80%93%2F%E2%80%93%2F%2FC*&amp;asmSelect10=&amp;asmSelect11=&amp;BustDescription=&amp;ReverseDescription=&amp;Note=&amp;Reference=&amp;page=1&amp;mod=result" rel="nofollow">These five coins</a> are the only coins of Aurelian listed with C* in the exergue and they are all attributed to the Cyzicus mint. Similarly, <a href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/search/advanced?tempRIC=&amp;asmSelect0=&amp;asmSelect1=&amp;Person=Aurelianus&amp;asmSelect2=&amp;asmSelect3=&amp;asmSelect4=&amp;asmSelect5=&amp;asmSelect6=&amp;asmSelect7=&amp;asmSelect8=&amp;asmSelect9=&amp;ReverseMark=%E2%80%93%2F%E2%80%93%2F%2FS%2A&amp;asmSelect10=&amp;asmSelect11=&amp;BustDescription=&amp;ReverseDescription=&amp;Note=&amp;Reference=&amp;page=1&amp;mod=result&amp;hpp=20" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/search/advanced?tempRIC=&amp;asmSelect0=&amp;asmSelect1=&amp;Person=Aurelianus&amp;asmSelect2=&amp;asmSelect3=&amp;asmSelect4=&amp;asmSelect5=&amp;asmSelect6=&amp;asmSelect7=&amp;asmSelect8=&amp;asmSelect9=&amp;ReverseMark=%E2%80%93%2F%E2%80%93%2F%2FS%2A&amp;asmSelect10=&amp;asmSelect11=&amp;BustDescription=&amp;ReverseDescription=&amp;Note=&amp;Reference=&amp;page=1&amp;mod=result&amp;hpp=20" rel="nofollow">these seventeen coins</a> are the only coins of Aurelian listed with S* in the exergue and they are all attributed to Siscia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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