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Late Roman Bronze Coins

Coin talk => Late Roman Bronze coins => Topic started by: Victor on October 28, 2021, 08:40:42 AM

Title: Constantine I GLORIA EXERCITVS from Heraclea with large flan
Post by: Victor on October 28, 2021, 08:40:42 AM

This coin was struck on a large flan. RIC also lists this coin as having a dot in the left field, but it is actually in front of GLORIA.


Constantine I
A.D. 330-3
20x22mm 2.6g
CONSTANTI-NVS MAX AVG; rosette-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right.
•GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS; Two soldiers helmeted, stg. facing one another, reversed spear in outer hands, inner hands on shields resting on the ground; between them two standards.
in ex. •SMHΓ•
RIC VII Heraclea 131
Title: Re: Constantine I GLORIA EXERCITVS from Heraclea with large flan
Post by: Heliodromus on October 28, 2021, 10:33:58 AM
It's interesting they chose to use this "two dots in exergue, one above" placement for Gloria Exercitvs and Constantinopolis, but put all three dots in exergue for Vrbs Roma.

The odd 3rd dot above exergue placement seems to have mislead Vienna into not noticing it and misattributing their RIC 135 as RIC 125 (two dots).

https://www.ikmk.at/object?lang=en&id=ID197056&view=rs

Not my coins:

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