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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 2868576, member: 82549&quot;]All ancient coin dies were hand made, and errors are not uncommon. It&#039;s similar to the way, errors would often creep into ancient texts because of scribe mistakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The C and S are control marks on many bronze coins from this time period. Volumes VI --IX of Roman Imperial Coinage (RIC), the main catalog of ancient Roman coins, divides coins into different series based on them, sort of, and uses them to determine the approximate mint date. I&#039;m not sure what their significance was back when they were minted. At some mints they would use a pair of letters in the field for a year or so and then change one or both of them. My guess is that they had some sort of administrative purpose.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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