Late Roman Bronze Coins
Coin talk => COTD => Topic started by: Victor on December 29, 2020, 01:01:47 PM
Here's a nice example of this type with an unusual flan. RIC mistakenly has this coin as cuirassed when it is trabeate. It is corrected in the London mint book.
Constantine I
A.D. 316
20x23mm 3.2g
CONSTANTINVS P AVG; laureate and trabeated bust left.
SOLI INVICTO COMITI; Sol rad., stg. L., raising r. hand, globe in l., chlamys across l. shoulder, across fields S/P.
in ex. MSL
RIC VII London 75 corr.; LMCC 8.07.018
Nice! I still don't have this type myself, or quadriga type from same issue. Back in the good old days of 10-15 years ago the quadriga would occasionally appear for sale, but I haven't seen one in a long while.
I assume that Constantine's rare trabeate busts are all specifically the trabea consularis, so despite RIC's 316 date this should really be 315 for COS IIII.
Yes, in LMCC they date this issue to late 314- early 315, but I didn't change my RIC description. I have had two other examples of RIC 75, but sold them. I almost had a quadriga example, but it seems it was lost in shipping...maybe it will show up-- it has only been five years.
That's annoying to lose something like that in the mail, although I was reading the other day of a record case where the post office delivered something 100 years later, so never say never ! ::)