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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Suarez, post: 3404203, member: 99239&quot;]Well, there&#039;s degrees of certainty to be sure. There&#039;s no 100% factual guarantee that it was minted in Arles (or even by Constantius II for that matter) but it&#039;s reasonably certain.</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantinople, and other cities in the Eastern half of the empire, spoke Greek as a primary language. While the coins during this time featured Latin legends one small area where Greek was permitted were to mark the mint&#039;s officina. 4th-6th century silver and copper coins coming from Constantinople would take the form CON<i>x</i> where x stood for any Greek letter which in turn corresponded with the officina number so that A=1, B=2, Γ=3 and so on.</p><p><br /></p><p>The western cities with mints however used Latin throughout, including the numerals. In the case of Arles in particular the format used was <i>x</i>CON where the x this time stands for the first letter of the ordinal, rather than numerical so that we get the sequence Prima, Secunda, Tertia and Quarta (Latin for first, second, third and fourth)</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this helps![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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