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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 4622182, member: 96898&quot;]Interesting thought. Like Failmezger and others who have posted above, I see a rising sun in this mintmark. <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.7.sis.181" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.7.sis.181" rel="nofollow">OCRE</a> agrees with that, Sear describes it as a &quot;radiate semicircle&quot;, and the UK Portable Antiquities Scheme writes of a &quot;cogwheel&quot; (<a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/articles/page/slug/fourth-century-mints" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/articles/page/slug/fourth-century-mints" rel="nofollow">here</a>). </p><p><br /></p><p>The other marks the type comes with are star, double crescent, thunderbolt, wreath, and branch. Due to the celestial nature of the first three of them, the interpretation &quot;sunrise&quot; for the final mintmark makes most sense to me, but &quot;radiate crown&quot; certainly is another possibility. As I said, it&#039;s an interesting mintmark...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Me too. Just as your, [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER] &#039;s and my coins, the examples from museum collections on <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.ss.167A_denarius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.ss.167A_denarius" rel="nofollow">OCRE</a> show quite a bit of variation when it comes to how the tripod is rendered. With some of these examples, one might even speculate about whether the engraver didn&#039;t fully understand the tripod design and instead engraved an altar.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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