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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 4782088, member: 44316&quot;]Roman coins from the first century might be from Lugdunum, but they don&#039;t say so explicitly. It took scholars a lot of work to try to determine whether first century pieces were minted in Rome or Lugdunum. It is not like the coins are clearly mintmarked. Now we look it up in books and think knowing is easy. It isn&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, much later, in the late third century, mints were distinguished by mintmarks. Aurelian has coins from Serdica marked &quot;SERD&quot; in exergue. Post-reform coins under the First Tetrarchy have more-or-less explicit mintmarks. (Of course, provincial coins regularly named the mint city.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a mintmark that is a bit surprising for being fairly explicit even before the First Tetrarchy. You know the coin is from Lugdunum:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1163067[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Numerian, 282-284, as Augustus, Feb/March 283 to November 284.</p><p>PIETAS AVGG&nbsp; </p><p>LVG in exergue</p><p>RIC V.II 396 Lugdunum.</p><p><br /></p><p>This mintmark is shared with his brother, Carinus, but not with his father Carus, so the time interval of issue can probably be narrowed down to after the death of Carus c. autumn 283.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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