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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dadams, post: 3045129, member: 82194&quot;]<font face="Times New Roman">Sweet!!</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">I found the MM on yours as COMOB a bit curious vs CONOB for Constantinopolis which had me looking for a reference to explain - </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Fred. W. Madden in&nbsp; <i>The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Numismatic Society</i>&nbsp; New Series, Vol. 1 (1861), pp. 175-184 states:</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><i>After the death of Theodosius I., the empire is divided</i></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><i>between his two sons Arcadius and Honorius, and the</i></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><i>forms COMOB. for the Western, and CONOB. for the</i></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><i>Eastern empire, become the adopted exergual mint-marks . . . </i></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><i>. . . The forms COMOB. and CONOB. continue as the Western</i></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><i>and Eastern exergual mint-marks, till the time of Zeno and</i></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><i>Anastasius, after which they are of no use as distinctive mint-marks.</i></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><a href="http://www.bibliopath.com/coins/boards/Madden_COMOB-CONOB_Article.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bibliopath.com/coins/boards/Madden_COMOB-CONOB_Article.pdf" rel="nofollow">(Read the Article opens PDF)</a></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Here&#039;s my Tremissis:</font></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.bibliopath.com/coins/ancient/Theodosius-II_RIC-X-213.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Theodosius II, AD 402-450</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">AV Tremissis, 14.32mm, 1.50g; Constantinople mint , AD 408-419 </font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Obv: D N THEODO-SIVS P F AVG - Pearl diademed draped and cuirassed bust right</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Rev: VICTORIA AVGVSTORVM - Victory walking right, head left, holding wreath and globus cruciger, star in right field, conob in exergue</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Reference: RIC X 213</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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