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Message:: [QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 2844320, member: 80804"]Contemporary copies from unofficial mints are very well known for this era, but usually you see copies of the "VLPP's" which, evidently, were the favorite prototype for the local imitators across a wide swath of the Danube basin during the early 320's A.D. (that's "VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP" in case you're unfamiliar with the abbreviation)Like this example on which the legend has devolved to the point that it has become a decorative border element with no attempt to even make it look like a Latin legend, except for the copy of a Siscia exergual mint mark. These often have one of the "S's" reversed: S I Ƨ  This, presumably, in the interest of symmetry, which evidently was important at the time in that place - and may explain why the VLPP was the more popular prototype while there were several other concurrently issued and circulating billon centenionales and folles they could have copied:<img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/album164/VLPPcopy.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]