Once more on the solidi of an eastern military mint under phocas and heraclius

A number of different explanations have been offered for a series of marks appearing at the end of the reverse legend on a group of solidi attributed to an eastern military mint operating under Phocas and Heraclius. It is argued here that that the earliest of these solidi issued in the name of Phocas was probably issued by forces that remained loyal to his memory, and hostile to the new government in Constantinople, for up to about a year after his death, and that all of these marks represent numbers in reference to various indiction years.