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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><ref name="Hall">{{cite journal |last1=Hall |first1=David |title=Holding history – coins of the late Roman Republic |journal=South Wales and Monmouthshire Numismatic Society |url=https://swmnsociety.org.uk/holdinghistory.pdf}}</ref>


The marks are found on either the obverse or reverse of a coin.<ref name="Fox" /> The marks are found on either the obverse or reverse of a coin.<ref name="Fox" />

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Denarius of 83 BCE, depicting Venus, with a banker's mark next to the tip of her nose

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.

The marks are found on either the obverse or reverse of a coin.

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

  1. ^ Fox, Deborah (3 January 2025). "Bankers Marks on the Worcestershire Conquest Hoard". Research Worcestershire. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  2. "RIC I (second edition) Augustus 126, Spain, 'Uncertain mint 2' (Colonia Patricia?),". Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  3. Hall, David. "Holding history – coins of the late Roman Republic" (PDF). South Wales and Monmouthshire Numismatic Society.
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