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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2805263, member: 83956&quot;]<i><b>TL;DR: I don’t think this lambda officina is attested for this Licinius coin in RIC. It seems to be an unlisted officina for RIC VI Cyzicus 102 p. 594. Am I right?</b></i></p><p><br /></p><p>So I am continuing to completely re-catalogue my entire collection, with a major goal of assigning proper RIC numbers to my all Roman imperial coins. But this means I have to deal with the arcane mysteries of RIC, which some of you mastered long ago, but which I am still struggling with as a neophyte.</p><p><br /></p><p>Take, for example, this coin of Licinius. The identification of this coin was really difficult for me. The mintmark initially appeared to be SMH or SMN or even AN_? But comparing this coin with possible combinations of mintmarks and legend breaks pretty clearly narrows the options to Cyzicus and the mintmark to the probable SMK. (The photo doesn&#039;t really show the top half of the S, which can be seen in different light.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]655118[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The clear lambda in the right field is especially problematic; I don’t think it’s attested in RIC, so the RIC number RIC VI Cyzicus 102 (p. 594) is an approximation.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have collapsed the relevant RIC information below for what I <i>think</i> is my coin, RIC VI Cyzicus 102. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]655120[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As you can see, RIC only lists, at most, 8 theoretical officinae, alpha-theta for such a coin, and seems to only attest 7 (through eta) for this particular issue. But the officina mintmark in the right field of my coin is quite clearly a lambda. At first I thought maybe it was a weird alpha or even delta, but it’s definitely a lambda. That would be three officinae beyond what RIC lists, requiring missing kappa and iota officinae too!</p><p><br /></p><p>I’ve consulted <i>NOT IN RIC</i> and don’t see this officina variant mentioned there.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you’re still reading this tedious post, thank you.</p><p><br /></p><p>So to post my original query: <u><i><b>I don’t think this lambda officina is attested for this Licinius coin in RIC. It seems to be an unlisted officina for RIC VI Cyzicus 102 p. 594. Am I right?</b></i></u></p><p><br /></p><p>Licinius I</p><p>309-310 A.D.</p><p>AE (bronze) follis or nummus</p><p>IMP C VAL LICIN LICINIVS PF AVG; laureate head right.</p><p>GENIO AV-GVSTI CMH ; Genius standing left, holding patera and cornucopia; lambda in right field.&nbsp; λ</p><p>SMK</p><p>RIC VI Cyzicus 102 p. 594 (?)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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