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RIC VII, NICOMEDIA [before 117], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED FOR RULER [Victory]

  

OBVERSE

ANEPIGRAPHIC (no legend); head r. with plain diadem, looking upwards.

REVERSE

CONSTAN-TINVSAVG [CONSTANTINVS AVG]; Victory advancing l., holding wreath, palm branch. SMN in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED FOR RULER. RIC lists this issue only for Constantine II (p. 619). SMN in m.m. but this coin probably belongs to the same period as NICOMEDIA 117. See: Lars Ramskold, "Constantine's Vicennalia and the Death of Crispus", Niš and Byzantium XI, 2013, p. 447. Coin should be listed before NICOMEDIA 117.

See also:
NICOMEDIA [after 117], CONSTANTIUS II, UNLISTED FOR RULER [Victory]

NOTES

Siliqua. Weight 3.38 g; diameter 20 mm. Coin sold on Roma Numismatics auction XXVII (lot 754) in March 2023 for GBP 4,400.

Other specimens:

- sold on Roma Numismatics eSale 27 (lot 916) in May 2016 for GBP 420; weight 2.46 g; diameter 20 mm [click for picture];

- from Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris (picture from the Ramskold's paper cited above) [click for picture];

- from Wildwinds; contributed by MJ [click for picture].


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski