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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2962607, member: 19463&quot;]We really should not use the term &#039;provincial&#039; here.&nbsp; By the time of Probus, the only &#039;provincial&#039; mint was Alexandria which was producing the thick tetradrachms.&nbsp; The rest of the Roman world was served by a series of Imperial mints striking the Imperial antoniniani.&nbsp; These were not local issues as we knew from earlier days but just a unified coinage across the Empire.&nbsp; Each mint chose how they would express or ignore the marking of metal content and some changed the way they did it along the way.&nbsp; Some used XXI, some KA (Greek for XXI) and Ticinum even replaced the I in XXi with a T standing for the city name.&nbsp; You just have to learn how each one did things.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>When I wrote my Probus page, I intended to keep it up and expand it.&nbsp; That never happened so what you get is vintage 1997 (XXI years ago) but some may find it of interest still.&nbsp; Some information, including the update on that Rome first issue, are not covered.</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/probus.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/probus.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/probus.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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