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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nicholasz219, post: 4510277, member: 75641&quot;]Probus is one of the emperors that you can spend all of your time looking for different legends, bust types and mintmarks.&nbsp; Each mint had officinae: workshops within the mint.&nbsp; Each officina would use a mark to distinguish the coins produced in their workshop from other workshops in the same mint.&nbsp; Each mint would have a lettering system which would sometimes incorporate Greek letters and symbols.&nbsp;&nbsp; As the empire grew, additional mints were added.&nbsp; Up until around 250AD, provinces would issue coinage in the name of the emperor with their own names, sometimes the names of the magistrate and their own designs for circulation in the area of the issuing city.&nbsp; These mints were eventually replaced by all empirical mints which eventually adopted standardized designs etc.&nbsp; The mintmarks and officinae marks also grew more complicated over time.&nbsp; So originally, you may have a coin marked with an “A” above the exergue (space on the bottom of the reverse, usually below a line where the mintmark is located) and XXI in the exergue.&nbsp; By the time of the late empire, say Valentinian or Theodosius, you may have R over X/F/ANT(Gamma).&nbsp; When you see marks listed in that fashion typically the cataloguer is indicating that the letters and symbols to the left of the first slash are in the reverse left field, the second part in the reverse right field and the last part in the exergue.&nbsp; Constantine and Probus are prime examples of emperors whose coins display a remarkable variety of combinations.&nbsp; Constantine was Emperor for 30 years with 18 mints so you can imagine the combinations.&nbsp;&nbsp; But even Probus who ruled for about 8 years has something like 2,500 possible individual coins.&nbsp; PROBVS.net is a good resource for coins of Probus and you can get a feel for the coinage there.&nbsp;&nbsp; Feel free to write if you have more questions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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