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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikjo0, post: 78173, member: 3565&quot;]bonedigger,</p><p>Very nice coin with an interesting history.It is perhaps one of only two coins that we know were minted on or about a particular day,namely May 11,330 AD,although the coins were made for many years after.This was the official commemoration day for the city of Constantinople and was accompanied by another coin commemorating that event.Some historians speculate that the URBS ROMA (City of Rome) coin was created to help ease the resentments that some Romans felt about the moving of the center of power to Constantinople by Constantine the Great.You should try to get the second coin to make a set.Neither is very expensive since so many were made.$20-$25 ought to get you a VF example.</p><p>By the way,I think your coin was minted in Constantinople,not Thessalonica:</p><p>Urbs Roma Commemorative AE3. 333-335 AD. VRBS ROMA, helmeted, mantled bust of Roma left / She-wolf standing left suckling Romulus and Remus, two stars above,SCONSe. in exergue.These letters are one of several abbreviations for the Constantinople mint.Mine is from Heraclia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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