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<p>[QUOTE="Heliodromus, post: 8082405, member: 120820"]Here's another coin (not mine - sold on eBay) that would seem to both confirm the SMATA association with Antioch, but more interestingly also suggests a specific date for these IOM coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1403635[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is an error variant of RIC VII Antioch 29. The mintmark should be SMANT in exergue with officina letter in field, but here we have an erroneous SMATH in exergue and H in field. This SMATH vs expected SMANT can only reasonably be explained as an unintentional use of the (therefore preceding) IOM SMAT<officina> mark. Amusingly the officina letter "H" not only appears as part of this erroneous SMATH exergual mark, but also in field as expected!</p><p><br /></p><p>Since the IOM type therefore appears to precede the post-reform RIC 29 type, it seems most likely that the IOM was pre-reform (i.e. a ~1% silver nummus), since that would fit in with Alexandria otherwise being the only mint to include the caesars on the nummus (before switching to the post-reform type). Alternatively the IOM type could be the first post-reform one.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1403636[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So it seems that after the post-war appointment of the caesars, Licinius had then included them on a final nummus issue at all mints (except Heraclea which appears to have been idle), before his coinage reform. Nicomedia, Cyzicus and Antioch issued the new IOM type while Alexandria instead continued with the regular IOVI type (same issue that had included Valens). This gives us a 317 AD date for the IOM type, and suggests it to be of the pre-reform (~1% silver content) nummus denomination, pending metallurgical confirmation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Heliodromus, post: 8082405, member: 120820"]Here's another coin (not mine - sold on eBay) that would seem to both confirm the SMATA association with Antioch, but more interestingly also suggests a specific date for these IOM coins. [ATTACH=full]1403635[/ATTACH] This coin is an error variant of RIC VII Antioch 29. The mintmark should be SMANT in exergue with officina letter in field, but here we have an erroneous SMATH in exergue and H in field. This SMATH vs expected SMANT can only reasonably be explained as an unintentional use of the (therefore preceding) IOM SMAT<officina> mark. Amusingly the officina letter "H" not only appears as part of this erroneous SMATH exergual mark, but also in field as expected! Since the IOM type therefore appears to precede the post-reform RIC 29 type, it seems most likely that the IOM was pre-reform (i.e. a ~1% silver nummus), since that would fit in with Alexandria otherwise being the only mint to include the caesars on the nummus (before switching to the post-reform type). Alternatively the IOM type could be the first post-reform one. [ATTACH=full]1403636[/ATTACH] So it seems that after the post-war appointment of the caesars, Licinius had then included them on a final nummus issue at all mints (except Heraclea which appears to have been idle), before his coinage reform. Nicomedia, Cyzicus and Antioch issued the new IOM type while Alexandria instead continued with the regular IOVI type (same issue that had included Valens). This gives us a 317 AD date for the IOM type, and suggests it to be of the pre-reform (~1% silver content) nummus denomination, pending metallurgical confirmation.[/QUOTE]
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