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Message:: [QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2374843, member: 19463"]This is not one of my specialties but I think I am correct here.  Below are two coins of different 'styles' without mintmarks.  I consider the Diocletian to be London and the Constantius to be Lugdunum.  Like the vast majority of Roman coins struck before this time, mints are separated by style.  In some cases there is only one mint in operation but specialists in any period need to learn the 'look' of the exceptions.  It is part of the hobby. [ATTACH=full]486055[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]486057[/ATTACH] BTW, Pish's four coins are really nice.  I consider the style of the Diocletian a bit odd compared to most I have seen but I really like the others.  In addition to mints having a style, individuals at the mint have styles and were subject to good days and bad days.  That is the fun of ancients compared to hub produced modern dies where varieties are reduced to flyspecks.  Ancient variations hit you in the face and seem more obvious after you look at them a while.  Some of us even like to play a game trying to find different dies we believe were cut by the same person.  The straight laced elite of numismatics have no time for this sort of thing but amateurs who play with coins and type on Coin Talk when we should be doing chores can have fun with the sideroads of our hobby.  Was my Diocletian cut by the same person who did Pish's Constantius?  I can never prove it.  Oh, well![/QUOTE]