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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2878970, member: 42773&quot;]Discerning between N and H in Nicomedian and Heraclean mint marks can be problematic because sometimes the engravers at Nicomedia didn&#039;t slant the crossbar very much, making it look like H. Likewise, the engravers at Heraclea sometimes slanted the crossbar just enough to make it look like an N.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your mint mark clearly looks like SMN to me. However, even if it looked more like an H, we would know the coin was minted at Nicomedia because in this particular series, the Heraclea mint marks have the officina letter in exergue, after SMH, ie. SMHA, SMHB, SMHΓ, etc. Your mint mark only has three letters, and the officina letter, Є, is in the right field, which was the rubric for Nicomedia emissions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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