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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1126271, member: 19463&quot;]A theory of the meaning of MP really needs to include an explanation of MS as well since that mark appears as well.&nbsp; Coins also exist with P or S (no M) and with nothing in exergue.&nbsp; Coins of Gallienus of the period also exist with MT and plain T.&nbsp; All this adds up to the somewhat certain reading that the P, S and T is the Western Empire standard workshop ordinals Primus, Secundus and Tertius.&nbsp; That leaves the M:&nbsp; Since the conventional attribution of the coins is to Mediolanum (Milan) we can take the city initial as the M.&nbsp; However, if someone were to come up with another city we could equally well take the M to mean Moneta (or mint) which is known in the Roman series elsewhere.&nbsp; Since nowhere near all coins attributed to Mediolanum have a mint mark, we might even be open to separating the coins into more than one mint group.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Many of us who are &#039;into&#039; Roman coins are anxious to see what will come with the reissue of a new edition updating RIC.&nbsp; Roman Imperial Coinage has been the standard reference for so long that it is extremely outdated in many periods and Volume V (this one) is among the worst.&nbsp; I know there are many better minds than mine working on this project and I hope to live long enough to see their opinions put to print.&nbsp; For now, we may be as well researching online as buying the old books.</p><p><a href="http://mk.shahrazad.net/gallienus/index2.php?order=Coins.ReverseLegend%2C+Coins.ObverseLegend%2C+Coins.Reign%2C+Coins.RICNumber%2C+Coins.GoblNumber%2C+Coins.Number&amp;size=Large&amp;fontsize=-1&amp;obvleg=&amp;exact2=yes&amp;revleg=&amp;exact=no&amp;emperor2=Salonina&amp;ricnumber=&amp;goblnumber=&amp;province=&amp;city=&amp;ricmint=Mediolanum&amp;goblmint=All&amp;searmint=All&amp;denomination=All&amp;reign=All" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://mk.shahrazad.net/gallienus/index2.php?order=Coins.ReverseLegend%2C+Coins.ObverseLegend%2C+Coins.Reign%2C+Coins.RICNumber%2C+Coins.GoblNumber%2C+Coins.Number&amp;size=Large&amp;fontsize=-1&amp;obvleg=&amp;exact2=yes&amp;revleg=&amp;exact=no&amp;emperor2=Salonina&amp;ricnumber=&amp;goblnumber=&amp;province=&amp;city=&amp;ricmint=Mediolanum&amp;goblmint=All&amp;searmint=All&amp;denomination=All&amp;reign=All" rel="nofollow">http://mk.shahrazad.net/gallienus/index2.php?order=Coins.ReverseLegend%2C+Coins.ObverseLegend%2C+Coins.Reign%2C+Coins.RICNumber%2C+Coins.GoblNumber%2C+Coins.Number&amp;size=Large&amp;fontsize=-1&amp;obvleg=&amp;exact2=yes&amp;revleg=&amp;exact=no&amp;emperor2=Salonina&amp;ricnumber=&amp;goblnumber=&amp;province=&amp;city=&amp;ricmint=Mediolanum&amp;goblmint=All&amp;searmint=All&amp;denomination=All&amp;reign=All</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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