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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tammiGee, post: 3246754, member: 98133&quot;]Early Roman mints were basically private enterprise with the main &quot;office&quot; and scores of much smaller branches that actually did the minting. There were no scientific metal standards and each branch made their own &quot;version&quot; of a given coin. On the reverse 6:00 is the abbreviation of the mint with the last letter the actual branch.Not to mention each coin was struck individually with a die and hammer. We are lucky any survived at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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