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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7700902, member: 19463&quot;]I have never understood why they made the silver coins of the period with the relatively boring Vota reverses and used the best reverses for the base metal coins I could afford.&nbsp; Maybe they liked me???</p><p><br /></p><p>Those field letters usually referred to the series/weight standard.&nbsp; The first ones with A are easy to find, B is less so and they made millions with gamma.&nbsp; There is one exception where Thessalonika put the workshop letter in the reverse field but they just did that to confuse collectors in the distant future.&nbsp; I cover that on my page linked above. </p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fhthes.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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