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Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Themes & Provenance| ▸ |Numismatics| ▸ |Coded||View Options:   | | | Some Roman antoniniani offer a unique and very interesting collecting focus - the embedded "secret" codeword series of Probus, Diocletian, and Maximian. Each of these coins was struck with the letters of a codeword "hidden" within the mintmark. Each officina (mint workshop) was assigned part of a codeword. When all the types from a codeword series are assembled in officina order, the embedded letters spell out the "secret" codeword: AEQVITI (for Probus at Rome), AEQVIT and later EQVITI (for Probus at Ticinum), IOBI (for Diocletian at Siscia), and HPKOYΛI (for Maximian at Siscia). The following articles in NumisWiki discuss these hidden codewords: |
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REFERENCES
Cohen, H. Description historique des monnaies frappées sous l'Empire Romain, Vol. 6: Macrianus to Diocletian & Maximianus. (Paris, 1886).
Colombetti, L. "Cennisulla monetazione di Probo gli antoniniani delle serie (A)EQVIT(I) (zecche de Roma e Ticinvm)." in La numismatica 20, 11 (1989), pp. 339 - 340.
Dannhäuser, E. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Kaisers Probus (276-282). Inaugural Dissertation. (1909).
von Kolb, J. "EnträthselteSiglen auf Münzen Diocletians and Maximians" in Numismatische Zeitschrift 4 (1872), pp. 24 - 30.
von Kolb, J. "EnträthselteSiglen auf Münzen Diocletians and Maximians" in Numismatische Zeitschrift 5 (1873), pp. 116 - 121.
Mattingly, H., E. Sydenham & P. Webb. The Roman Imperial Coinage, Vol. V, Part II, Probus to Amandus. (London, 1933).
Missong, A, "Gleichartigsystemisirte Münzreihen unter Kaiser Probus" in Numismatische Zeitschrift 5 (1873), pp. 102 - 115.
Mommsen, T. 'Equitius', Zeitschrift für Numismatik, 15 (1887) pp. 251-252.
Mowat, R. "Combinaisons secrète delettres dans les marges monétaires de l 'empire Romain" in Revue Numismatique 1897, pp. 67 - 81.
Pink, K. "Der Aufbau derrömischen Münzprägung in der Kaiserzeit. VI/I, Probus" in Numismatische Zeitschrift 73 (1949), p. 13 - 74.
Robinson, A. Roman Imperial Coins in the Hunter Coin Cabinet, University of Glasgow, Vol. IV. Valerian I to Allectus. (Oxford, 1978).
Sear, D. Roman Coins and Their Values, Vol. Three, The Accession of Maximinus I to the Death of Carinus AD 235 - AD 285. (London, 2005).
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