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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2130375, member: 19463&quot;]Good job seeing the dot right of the tower which is, in this case, significant to the RIC ID.&nbsp; This mint has quite a few variations based on little things like dots.&nbsp; I&#039;ll show a couple others.&nbsp; The first is plain with HTdelta and different style while the second is from the variety with lambda in the right field.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]405537[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]405538[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>RIC lists your coin as also coming from officina delta but I wonder if that is a misread for alpha.&nbsp; I could see how your coin could be seen as delta especially on a less clear specimen.&nbsp; A&#039;s are&nbsp; often open top like on my second coin so it is possible that yours would have been read as a delta by some. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]405539[/ATTACH] </p><p>I don&#039;t have a Licinius II Jupiter from Heraclea so I&#039;ll show a Nikomedia.&nbsp; Every mint has a bit different style.&nbsp; I&#039;d rather not see the symbol after XII called mu.&nbsp; It is the mark for &#039;half&#039; making the number 12 and a half or the value of the coin in denarii of account. I believe it derives from s for semis in its distant past.&nbsp; Also below is the Antioch for comparison.&nbsp; For people with just one Licinius II, this would be a good type from any of the mints.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]405540[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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