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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 3520388, member: 82549&quot;]With your first coin, you are correct that it looks like &quot;SH . . .&quot;, but your first thought <i>should</i> have been &quot;SM . . .&quot; because many eastern mints begin their mint marks with those letters. SM stands for Sacra Moneta (forgive me if I&#039;ve mangled the Latin), which means that the value of the coin is guaranteed by the state. So whenever you see SM at the beginning of a mint mark, look to the third letter to identify the city.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two sites that list different mint marks:</p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Mint%20Marks" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Mint%20Marks" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Mint Marks</a></p><p><a href="http://www.romancoins.info/Mintmarks.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.romancoins.info/Mintmarks.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.romancoins.info/Mintmarks.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Neither site lists every known variation of officina and control marks--there are thousands of them--but these lists should help you narrow down the city.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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