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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 2226983, member: 26302"]This is correct. It appears that for gold coins CONOB was either a declaration of Constantinople fineness, or more likely in my mind it was simply a frozen attribute. Just like mintmarks on Parthian coins became frozen regardless of mint, and became "part of what a coin looks like", I hypothesize on gold coins CONOB was recognized as "part of the design" and simply used at all mints because "that is what a solidus looks like". For illiterate populations, its a powerful force, what something is "supposed" to look like, especially for a high value coin that we know was forged a lot.</p><p> </p><p>For bronzes, they almost always used the real mint name.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 2226983, member: 26302"]This is correct. It appears that for gold coins CONOB was either a declaration of Constantinople fineness, or more likely in my mind it was simply a frozen attribute. Just like mintmarks on Parthian coins became frozen regardless of mint, and became "part of what a coin looks like", I hypothesize on gold coins CONOB was recognized as "part of the design" and simply used at all mints because "that is what a solidus looks like". For illiterate populations, its a powerful force, what something is "supposed" to look like, especially for a high value coin that we know was forged a lot. For bronzes, they almost always used the real mint name.[/QUOTE]
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