6-2038

RIC VI, TREVERI [after 568], CONSTANTIUS, UNLISTED FOR RULER, REVERSE LEGEND VARIETY

  

OBVERSE

CONSTA-NTIVSNC [CONSTANTIVS N C]; head r., laur.

REVERSE

VO/T X/SIC/XX in four lines in wreath.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED FOR RULER, REVERSE LEGEND VARIETY. RIC lists this type for Diocletian and Galerius Maximian [all very rare! - R4 and R3] (p. 198). Note also rev. legend variety: VO/T X instead of VOT/X.

See general note from p. 150: "The fractions, all rare, are safely attributable to Trier on grounds of portrait style. Their 'vota' reverses commemorate the joint vicennalia and decennalia of the Augusti and Caesars in and after 302. The issue as a whole - folles and fractions - falls c. 302-3".

Listed in Zschucke BTP (p. 52, no. 3.9). Coin should be listed in RIC after TREVERI 568.

See also:
TREVERI [after 568], CONSTANTIUS, UNLISTED FOR RULER
TREVERI [after 568], MAXIMIAN HERCULIUS, UNLISTED FOR RULER

NOTES

Fraction. From Hess 1935, Sammlung Franz Trau, lot 3574.


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski