I am trying to establish whether the sigle CONOB was ever used on Milan Tremisses of Honorius or not. On acsearch I could only find tremisses with sigle CON, while CONOB only appears on solidi. I know that CONOB was used on Tremissis by Honorius' successors, but is there any case of an official Milan Tremissis of Honorius with CONOB? I really like to know. The background to this question is the following: I'm researching a Tremissis of Honorius, which is highly stylised and probably a contemporary imitation. It has the sigle CONOB and the mintmark MD for Milan. If Milan never used CONOB on Tremisses of Honorius, I would be certain that the coin is imitative. I'm not yet posting a picture, because I'm writing a short article about this unpublished coin. Many thanks Dirk
Hello Dirk a quick search in Coin Archives showed only tremisses with CON, just as in acseach. Sunny sunday Klaus
Dirk, Beast Coins posted the tremissis pictured below on his website. This coin was struck at the Ravenna Mint & has COMOB in exergue. Since these coins were struck at the Ravenna Mint it seems likely they were also struck at the Milan Mint. Honorius, AD 393-423 (struck after AD 408), AV Tremissis: 1.50 gm, 13 mm. RIC X, 1340 (R). Ex Rauch, Auction 79, lot 2547, Nov. 2006
Hello Klaus and Al thanks a lot for your input. So far I know that: CONOB was used on Honorius' Tremisses from Constantinople https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5389115 COMOB and COM was used at Ravenna eg https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5462548 COM was used at Rome. I have not yet found an example with COMOB e.g. https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=432845 https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7934420 CON (maybe also COM) was used at Milan. I have not yet found an indisputably official example with CONOB. I found 9 specimen on acsearch all with CON/COM eg https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=90240 But I just realise that I was completely blind ... or as a German saying goes "I couldn't not see the forrest for all the trees" ... While researching the CONOB vs. CON problem It just occurred to me that my Tremissis has the Solidus reverse legend VICTORIA AVGGG A Tremissis should have VICTORIA AVGSTORVM Or are there any examples of official Tremisses with VICTORIA AVGGG? If not, than the mystery is solved, the piece is imitative.
