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Message:: [QUOTE="medoraman, post: 2226089, member: 26302"]I have the book. Sorry I didn't mention it, but CONOB was indeed used for most gold coins, regardless of what mint produced them. It even appeared on imitative coins like one I have of the Ostrogoths copying a Byzantine coin of Justin. So yes, most gold does not name the mint on the coin, they all name Constantinople.  [ATTACH=full]436921[/ATTACH] For bronzes, most stated the actual mint that minted them, or are later when the mint was not listed even for Constantinople. Regarding your question about circulation, I simply do not have the answer definitively. I have bought hoards that appear to be found in modern Syria or Turkey. Most of the coins were Antioch, but many of the older ones were Constantinople. So they circulated there. I also know many countermarked coins of the Heraclii revolt were overstruck on Sicily on Constaninople minted coins, (though most were Syracuse). Other than that I do not have any proof, but I would suspect Constantinople coins circulated widely throughout the empire. Remember there were constant shipments of troops and supplies between Constantinople and other cities, and I imagine coinage went with those ships.[/QUOTE]