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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3119427, member: 44316&quot;]Long ago I created a web site on the mintmarks of Justinian at Antioch, which was renamed Theopolis (city of God) after two major earthquakes destroyed much of the city. The coins and the story are here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If you already read the previous version there is not much new. But today I increased the font size, illustrated the various mintmarks up top (with links to the coins), and generally improved the navigation. Here is my favorite coin on the page with its mintmark first:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]793390[/ATTACH]</p><p>&quot;θVΠO&quot; is close to spelling out Theoupolis.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]793391[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]793392[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Sear 218B.</p><p>40-nummia.</p><p>39 mm, 20.77 grams.</p><p>Mintmark: θVΠO</p><p>on a large follis of year 13.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reform which yielded this new, larger, coin started in year 12 at Constantinople but did not begin at Antioch until year 13 and none were issued in year 14 or 15 (probably due to the invasion of Khusru mentioned on the site). The mintmark switched to Latin in year 16 (see the year-16 coin on the site), so, this short-version mintmark was used only in year 13 making this a one-year type.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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