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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1268789, member: 19463&quot;]It is a fair question how many mints were used under, for example Victorianus.&nbsp; Since dies were individually cut rather than mechanically reproduced (which is what allows us to start this calculation). We can look at those 81,000 coins and select styles that might possibly be different mints (it would be possible that the styles could exist together in the same city if there were or that neighboring cities might share enough of an artistic style that we could not separate them).&nbsp; RIC lists Cologne and &#039;Southern&#039;, Elmer (<b>Die Münzprägung der gallischen Kaiser in Köln, Trier und Mailand - 1974 - </b>which I don&#039;t have) adds Trier if we are to accept Milan as &#039;Southern&#039;.&nbsp;&nbsp; RIC discusses a few non-standard coins as possibly fro barbarous mints but the relatively small number of things that don&#039;t fit into three principle groups suggests that most of the 81,000 coins should be from two or three sources rather than anything approaching nine.&nbsp; Perhaps someone owning Elmer could read his arguments for his mint separations?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Too bad these coin came from a period where mint marks were not openly coded.&nbsp; Addressing this question alone will make the new Oxford Handbook something we may need to buy.&nbsp; RIC is too old and the other choices are not in English so I&#039;d think such a book might be most interesting.&nbsp; Does anyone have other references?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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