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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4490858, member: 19463"]Here are some interesting ones minted after the coinage reform:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://badlight.github.io/josephscoins/images/justiniani7/justiniani7.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps you were trying to set a record for most mentions without tipping off what was special to confuse beginners??? I always want one of those YZ mintmark coins but never found it. I do have the other one from Nikomedia which is a lot less obvious since the third letter after NI is not required to ID the coin as NI<font size="7">K</font>omedia. I wonder how may people even get that joke. I wonder if the mint workers at Nikomedia were aware of the Kyzikos coin and said, "We can do that, too." ...or was it just an accident? I so wish there were an officina O but that would make this way too cool.</p><p>Justinian half follis mint mark NI(<font size="7">K</font>)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1114358[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4490858, member: 19463"]Here are some interesting ones minted after the coinage reform: [IMG]https://badlight.github.io/josephscoins/images/justiniani7/justiniani7.jpg[/IMG] Perhaps you were trying to set a record for most mentions without tipping off what was special to confuse beginners??? I always want one of those YZ mintmark coins but never found it. I do have the other one from Nikomedia which is a lot less obvious since the third letter after NI is not required to ID the coin as NI[SIZE=7]K[/SIZE]omedia. I wonder how may people even get that joke. I wonder if the mint workers at Nikomedia were aware of the Kyzikos coin and said, "We can do that, too." ...or was it just an accident? I so wish there were an officina O but that would make this way too cool. Justinian half follis mint mark NI([SIZE=7]K[/SIZE]) [ATTACH=full]1114358[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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