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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3047801, member: 19463&quot;]Your coin is most definitely post-reform.&nbsp; All folles are post reform.&nbsp; The difference between pre-reform and post-reform refers to the smaller, radiate denomination.&nbsp; Pre-reform radiates or antoniniani contained one part silver to 20 parts base metal and often were marked XXI to indicate the alloy.&nbsp; Post reform folles had silver and a few like yours had the XXI alloy mark (most did not).&nbsp; The post reform radiate was a fraction of the follis (probably 2/5?) and there was a smaller post reform laureate coin (1/5?) which did not have silver.&nbsp; </p><p>Samples below:</p><p>Antioch mint officina 9 (5+4 to avoid the unlucky number 9 - theta alone)&nbsp; pre-reform radiate antoninianus with silver wash remaining.&nbsp;&nbsp; At this time Antioch did not use a city mark but only the officina and alloy.&nbsp; This example has silver remaining from the surface wash but many do not and look copper. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]761898[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Heraclea mint (H) 4th officina (delta) post reform radiate with no silver now or ever.&nbsp; Some post reform mints, including Heraclea,&nbsp; placed both city initial and officina (workshop) in the field.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]761900[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This laureate has city ALE (Alexandria) in exergue&nbsp; and the officina (A) higher in the field. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]761911[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Not all mints made every denomination in every period.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Specialists in this period feel free to post disgreements with my summary above.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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