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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2008705, member: 19463&quot;]While S sometimes mean secunda (2nd), here it is the Greek letter for 6 in a series that goes A, B, gamma, delta, E, S.&nbsp; Different mints used different systems. Yes, I have a page on that as well.&nbsp; It will not cover every permutation of every issue from every mint but it is a place to start. </p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/officina.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/officina.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/officina.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Many questions which are answered on my pages.&nbsp; Feel free to read some of them and ask for clarifications so I might be able to make them better.&nbsp;&nbsp; In this case, someone will want to know how you are supposed to know the coin is Antioch.&nbsp; The answer is that one of us looked it up in the standard references and that is where it was found to have been attributed by the scholars of previous generations who studied thousands of coins and worked out the patterns.&nbsp; XXI is what it is but there are still some who prefer to make up their own answers and declare it to be something else.&nbsp; Many &#039;facts&#039; in numismatics get updated every so often just like the fact that Pluto was a planet when I was in school and plate tectonics had not been accepted by most scientists of the day.&nbsp; Here is a fact:&nbsp; The guys who made these coins did things their way with not the least thought about how much sense it would make to people two millennia later.&nbsp; Some of their mintmarks (among other practices) may seem capricious; others may seem just plain weird.&nbsp; We learn to cope.&nbsp; Evidence:</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/equiti.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/equiti.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/equiti.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/code.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/code.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/code.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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