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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3229970, member: 19463&quot;]A few of the posts in this extended thread suggest some here might like to know more about the workshop system which resulted in the additional letters in the mintmarks or fields.&nbsp; The first coin in this thread showed an E following TS meaning the fifth workshop at Thessalonica. We have examples above of more than one of the ways that the workshops were numbered including a B which is the Greek numeral for the second workshop and an S for the ordinal secunda used for the second shop in some other mints.&nbsp;&nbsp; The entire subject of workshops is a bit complex because each mint did it &#039;their way&#039; with between one and fifteen shops in use at one time.&nbsp; Some mints used a pattern with each shop dedicated to a different ruler while others just struck some for everyone at each shop.&nbsp; Anyone interested in an short summery of the subject is invited to read my page which really needs to be expanded to do anything approaching justice to the subject:</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/officina.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/officina.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/officina.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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