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A '''banker's mark''' (or '''bankers' mark''') is a symbol or letter stamped or scratched into many republican and early imperial ]s, whose purpose is unclear.<ref name="Fox">{{cite web |last1=Fox |first1=Deborah |title=Bankers Marks on the Worcestershire Conquest Hoard |url=https://researchworcestershire.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/bankers-marks-on-the-worcestershire-conquest-hoard/https://researchworcestershire.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/bankers-marks-on-the-worcestershire-conquest-hoard/ |website=Research Worcestershire |access-date=10 January 2025 |date=3 January 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=RIC I (second edition) Augustus 126, Spain, ‘Uncertain mint 2’ (Colonia Patricia?), |url=https://brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/resources/coins/Coin6.html |publisher=Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology |access-date=10 January 2025}}</ref> | A '''banker's mark''' (or '''bankers' mark''') is a symbol or letter stamped or scratched into many republican and early imperial ]s, whose purpose is unclear.<ref name="Fox">{{cite web |last1=Fox |first1=Deborah |title=Bankers Marks on the Worcestershire Conquest Hoard |url=https://researchworcestershire.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/bankers-marks-on-the-worcestershire-conquest-hoard/https://researchworcestershire.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/bankers-marks-on-the-worcestershire-conquest-hoard/ |website=Research Worcestershire |access-date=10 January 2025 |date=3 January 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=RIC I (second edition) Augustus 126, Spain, ‘Uncertain mint 2’ (Colonia Patricia?), |url=https://brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/resources/coins/Coin6.html |publisher=Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology |access-date=10 January 2025}}</ref> |
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A banker's mark (or bankers' mark) is a symbol or letter stamped or scratched into many republican and early imperial Roman coins, whose purpose is unclear.
Historians and numismatists have speculated that the marks may been used to assess the purity of a coin's silver, demonstrate that it was not a plated forgery, or for accounting or auditing purposes.
References
- ^ Fox, Deborah (3 January 2025). "Bankers Marks on the Worcestershire Conquest Hoard". Research Worcestershire. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- "RIC I (second edition) Augustus 126, Spain, 'Uncertain mint 2' (Colonia Patricia?),". Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology. Retrieved 10 January 2025.