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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 3280409, member: 57495&quot;]That&#039;s a really nice SPQR, Warren!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t read in depth into why, but the new RIC Online database for Vol. V part I apparently follows the suggestion there was not one but two mints that used SPQR as a mintmark - first Smyrna, then Cyzicus, where the workshop and workers were moved to. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one of the SPQR issues listed as being from Smyrna. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]867185[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>CLAUDIUS II</b></p><p>AE/Billon Antoninianus. 3.37g, 21.5mm. Smyrna mint, circa end AD 268 - early 269. <a href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/coin/854" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/coin/854" rel="nofollow">New RIC V/1 Online temp #854</a> (this coin cited). O: IMP C M AVR CLAVDIVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right; two dots below bust. R: PROVIDENTIA AVG, Mercury standing left, holding purse in right hand and short-handled caduceus in left hand; SPQR in exergue. </p><p><i>Ex Finn Johannessen Collection (purchased from Walt Miskavage, 17 Nov 2003)</i></p><p>Notes: <i>Extremely rare: &quot;Second known specimen according to Jerome Mairat&quot;</i></p><p><i>Not in RIC 1st. This combination of this reverse legend and type (Mercury) only known at Smyrna. Two varieties, both extremely rare. </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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