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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2226983, member: 26302&quot;]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 &quot;part of what a coin looks like&quot;, I hypothesize on gold coins CONOB was recognized as &quot;part of the design&quot; and simply used at all mints because &quot;that is what a solidus looks like&quot;. For illiterate populations, its a powerful force, what something is &quot;supposed&quot; to look like, especially for a high value coin that we know was forged a lot.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For bronzes, they almost always used the real mint name.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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