7-497

RIC VII, LONDON [after 65], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED BUST TYPE [K1 l.]

  

OBVERSE

CONSTANTINVSPAVG [CONSTANTINVS P AVG]; bust l., laur., wearing trabea [K1 l.].

REVERSE

GENIO-POPROM [GENIO POP ROM]; Genius with modius stg. l., loins draped with himation, patera in r. hand, cornucopiae in l. S in left field, P in right field. MSL in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED BUST TYPE - K1 l. Not attested for obv. legend 1d (p. 101). See also CORRIGENDA, VOL. VII, p. 101. Listed in Cloke-Toone (8.07.005). Should be listed in RIC after LONDON 65.

NOTES

Weight 2.14 g; diameter 20.90-21.41 mm. Plate coin in Cloke-Toone. Sold on CNG e-Auction 204 (lot 369) in February 2009 for USD 168 [lot of 4 coins].

Other specimens:

- from: Dr. Wendelin Kellner, "Ungewöhnliche und irreguläre Römermünzen. 16. Teil: Constantinische Zeit (I)", Money Trend 2011, no. 6, p. 193, no. 14; weight 3.46 g; diameter 20.1-23.4 mm [click for picture];

- from CNG auction 37 (lot 1862), March 1996; weight 2.98 g [click for picture].


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski