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<p>[QUOTE="Victor_Clark, post: 2582722, member: 10613"]The last symbol in your mintmark looks like an "S" but is actually ϛ (digamma); which is Greek for the sixth workshop. Everyone calls it an S, myself included, but the distinction helps ID your coin. Your coin must come from an Eastern mint and I think there were only about three that would have ended with this workshop. It looks an S before the workshop though, so CONSS, from Constantinople. The style also looks right for Constantinople, but in hand you should be able to make out the mintmark better than I can from a picture.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Victor_Clark, post: 2582722, member: 10613"]The last symbol in your mintmark looks like an "S" but is actually ϛ (digamma); which is Greek for the sixth workshop. Everyone calls it an S, myself included, but the distinction helps ID your coin. Your coin must come from an Eastern mint and I think there were only about three that would have ended with this workshop. It looks an S before the workshop though, so CONSS, from Constantinople. The style also looks right for Constantinople, but in hand you should be able to make out the mintmark better than I can from a picture.[/QUOTE]
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