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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 2642693, member: 56859"]Hard to tell what the third letter is but the first two are going to be SM (whether or not they look like that on your coin). "Sacra Moneta", and the third letter will indicate the mint city, and the B is for the second officina of this mint. Looks like there's a dot after the B.</p><p><br /></p><p>Seeing the obverse would help pin it down as would reading the reverse legend. Dane Kurth has some excruciatingly detailed spreadsheets for these campgates and with enough bits of information from your coin, you can find its RIC number from these spreadsheets. (Scroll down <a href="http://www.catbikes.ch/coinstuff/coins-ric.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.catbikes.ch/coinstuff/coins-ric.htm" rel="nofollow">this page</a> to the campgates spreadsheet)</p><p><br /></p><p>Looks like SMKB・(Cyzicus) to me but the oblique lighting made funny shadows on the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 2642693, member: 56859"]Hard to tell what the third letter is but the first two are going to be SM (whether or not they look like that on your coin). "Sacra Moneta", and the third letter will indicate the mint city, and the B is for the second officina of this mint. Looks like there's a dot after the B. Seeing the obverse would help pin it down as would reading the reverse legend. Dane Kurth has some excruciatingly detailed spreadsheets for these campgates and with enough bits of information from your coin, you can find its RIC number from these spreadsheets. (Scroll down [URL='http://www.catbikes.ch/coinstuff/coins-ric.htm']this page[/URL] to the campgates spreadsheet) Looks like SMKB・(Cyzicus) to me but the oblique lighting made funny shadows on the coin.[/QUOTE]
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