Late Roman Bronze Coins

Coin talk => Unofficial coinage => Topic started by: Genio popvli romani on January 18, 2013, 05:12:10 AM

Title: Constantine votive from Arles.
Post by: Genio popvli romani on January 18, 2013, 05:12:10 AM

A very good imitative coin for Arles.

 

RIC252 is probably one of the most imitated coin for Arles mint (RICVII) but this one not appears frequently, I found only one other sample with this obverse legende but different mintmark (sold by forumancientcoins.com):

 

Title: Re: Constantine votive from Arles.
Post by: Victor on January 20, 2013, 12:21:05 PM

It is amazing how many good Arles imitations must have been in circulation at the time.

Title: Re: Constantine votive from Arles.
Post by: Genio popvli romani on January 20, 2013, 03:48:22 PM

I am curious to know why especially this issue has been so imitated. Almost 30% of irregular coins from Arles in Lech Stepniewski's notinric are #252 or "#252 like". http://www.notinric.lechstepniewski.info/av7.html (http://www.notinric.lechstepniewski.info/av7.html).