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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3280018, member: 44316&quot;]In the third century Prior to Gallienus Roman imperial coins did not have mintmarks identifying the mint. We can distinguish eastern mint coins of Septimius Severus by style, but not because they have a mintmark abbreviating the mint name like coins do during and after the tetrarchy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gallienus has some coins with mintmark &quot;SPQR&quot; and so do Claudius II (268-270) and Quintillus. When RIC was published in 1927, they were attributed to Cycicus. In 1983 F. Redo wrote (in English) &quot;The History of the SPQR mint&quot; in <i>Mitteillungen des Archaologischen Instituts der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften </i>12/13 (1982/1983), pages 85-111 with a map on page 331. His survey of the literature found various proposals for the mint city, including Cyzicus, Antioch mintworkers working outside Antioch (avoiding Sasanaian incursions), Smyrna, Ephesus, and Serdica. He concludes from hoards that it must be a mint in western Asia Minor and selects the former colonial mint of Tripolis in Phrygia, which he thinks under Aurelian changed mintmark from SPQR to TR (for Tripolis)--not the Tripolis south of Antioch, but the one in western Asia Minor.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have the impression that suggestion has been adopted by scholars, but would be glad to be informed of more-recent scholarly work about the SPQR mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]866993[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Claudius II, 268-270.</p><p>21-20 mm. 2.79 grams.</p><p>FORTVNA REDVX, Fortuna standing left holding rudder and cornucopia</p><p><br /></p><p>Sear 11338. RIC V.I Claudius II 233 (attributed to Cyzicus).</p><p><br /></p><p>Show some SPQR mint coins![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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