Sorry for yet another post about a VLPP from Siscia
This coin has three things going for it...it's a trifecta! First, it has an unlisted workshop. Second, the horseman on the shield is going left, they are usually going right. Interestingly, I have seen 4-5 examples of horseman going left in the past year or two, but in the couple of years that I actively collected VLPP’s I saw no examples. Third, this workshop is gamma, but normally workshop B was the only one that struck coins with horsemen. In fact, this is only the second example that I have noted out of dozens of coins with horsemen I have seen. The first of this type from another workshop that I saw was
posted by Nico only a little over a year ago and coincidentally it was also from gamma workshop.
Constantine I
A.D. 319- 320
18mm 2.5gm
IMP CONSTAN-TINVS AVG -- high crested helmet, cuir., spear across r. shoulder, shield inscribed with horseman on left arm
VICT LAETAE PRINC PERP -- two Victories stg., facing one another, together holding shield inscribed VOT PR on altar with the letter S.
in ex. ΓSIS•
RIC VII Siscia 101
