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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Magnus Maximus, post: 2545454, member: 73473&quot;]I&#039;m not going to lie, I love late Roman coins from the Rome mint. The style for their coins from the 350&#039;s to the 390&#039;s are some of the best looking ones in the enitire Late Empire. The mint at Rome wasn&#039;t always active, as the main mints were near the field armies, but it did produce a large amount of coinage, including a sizable amount of silver and bronze coins.</p><p>[USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER] has an excellent page on late Roman mint marks and officina. His spreadsheet of mint marks and officina symbols on coins of the Rome mint has inspired me to one day create a complete set for Valentinian, Valens, and Gratian.</p><p>I was about to pass over this lot until I saw the unusual mint mark on the Valens AE. After twenty minutes of reading Warren&#039;s page and Wildwinds, I decided to pick it up. That symbol, the (•), is described by Wildwinds to be a leaf.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]546205[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]546206[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]546202[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]546203[/ATTACH]</p><p>Valens AE-3</p><p>SECURITAS REIPVBLICAE</p><p>SM (•) RT</p><p>Rome mint</p><p>Circ 364-375 CE</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Please post your coins from the Rome mint post 350 CE.</p><p><br /></p><p>Warren&#039;s excellent page on these.</p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/RomeOfficina/Officina.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/RomeOfficina/Officina.html" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/RomeOfficina/Officina.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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