Helena SECVRITAS from Antioch

[Victor]

This coin is not in RIC for officina Z


Helena
A.D. 327- 328
19mm   2.8gm
FL HELENA AVGVSTA; diademed and draped bust right.
SECVRITAS REIPVBLICE; Securitas standing left, lowering branch, raising robe with right hand.
In ex. dot SMANTZ
RIC VII Antioch 82

[Lech Stępniewski]

Hi Victor

This beautiful coin is probably ANTIOCH 75 (officina Z listed). The only difference between ANTIOCH 75 and ANTIOCH 82 is the type of diadem.

The earlier issue has single or double pearl diadem and the later issue has band diadem (see RIC VII p. 672)

Here I see clearly the single string of pearls.

[Victor]

Hello Lech, you are right. I must admit that I first looked this coin up using Helvetica's list and searched for dot SMANTA and only saw Antioch 82, then looked at it in RIC to verify the workshops and did not pay attention to the footnote for the diadem type. A good lesson to be careful when taking shortcuts!