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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 2944263, member: 82549&quot;]I&#039;ve been researching a coin of Constantine I from Thessalonica, and I came across an interesting sentence in RIC concerning the transition from the [dot]SM[dot]TS[dot] mint mark, with the officina letter in the field, to the [dot]TS[dot]A-E[dot] mark: </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Absence of the hitherto prevailing SM indicates the withdrawal of Licinius&#039; imperial treasury form Thessalonica in the face of Maxentius; threatened invasion of Europe.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Really? I&#039;ve long wondered why some mints include SM in their mint marks while other don&#039;t. Does the SM indicate the physical presence of some sort of imperial treasury in the city at the time of the coin&#039;s issuance?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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