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Message:: [QUOTE="zumbly, post: 2948701, member: 57495"]The linked page belongs to Richard Bourne aka Mauseus.  If you want more information on the topic, he has a published thesis entitled Aspects of the Relationship between the Central and Gallic Empires in the mid to late Third Century AD.  In his thesis (available digitally <a href="http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4343/1/4343_1863.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4343/1/4343_1863.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a>) he discusses various theories about the number and locations of Postumus's mints.  There's even a few paragraphs regarding this Moneta type that you have: "Around the time of their third series which incorporated the PM TRP IIII COS III PP reverse, or possibly slightly before, they [Besly and Bland] notice a new series of coins, the MONETA AVG, that do not share any dies with either their "officina A" or "officina B" types. The later SAECVLI FELICITAS type also follows suit. From this they suggest that either a new workshop has come on stream or that a totally new mint has been established.  Drinkwater suggests that this is a new mint, travelling with the army, established to meet the increasing demands of campaigning.  "The idea is seductive, Moneta was used  as a reverse design upon the establishment of the Cologne mint a few years later.  One must be very cautious about over interpreting the reverse design of Roman coins and recreating history from them." There's more than what I quoted above, but I'll let you read the rest in the thesis.  I bought a Moneta reverse earlier this year, too: [ATTACH=full]719782[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]

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