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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1062339, member: 19463&quot;]314-315 AD Rome mint RIC 27 page 299 - The mintmark is RP but could come with S, Q or T in place of the P for the four workshops that made the coin.&nbsp; The letters in the fields are R/X and F All four shops are listed as c3 or very common.&nbsp; It also comes in a version for Licinius I.&nbsp; I failed to find an explanation for the field letters but similar coins exist for RF without the X, SF and CS.&nbsp; There are also coins with a star between the R and the P.&nbsp; Failmezger listed RXF as &quot;Rome 10 times happy&quot; (felicitas) but I have absolutely no idea where he got that one.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Rome mint often used an R form that is more of a blob than we would like.&nbsp; They rarely have strong legs during this period.&nbsp; I&#039;d call this a decent looking coin.&nbsp; Rome was not the best when it came to strong strikes so this one is not so bad even though it has some weak letters.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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