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Constantine II Follis

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 Posted 08/23/2018  8:24 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Lucky Cuss to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
When sold to me, this was misidentified as portraying Constantine the Great, but it's clearly instead Constantine II, minted at Heraclea. A well centered strike on a pretty round flan. It seems to generally conform to RIC VII 77, but there are a couple of anomalies to mention. Note the dot in the lefthand field of the reverse, as well as there being seven layers to the campgate. I'm not supposing that either of these discrepancies should be taken as too significant, perhaps making for just a minor variant of an otherwise very common type.





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 Posted 08/23/2018  9:30 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Kushanshah to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
RIC describes the type as having a "varying number of stone layers", A footnote for no. 77 states 5-9 layers. Officina B is apparently relatively rare, rated R3 (4-6 total in collections surveyed) and accounting for only 3 of 60 examples of no. 77 in the Nagyteteny Hoard.
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 Posted 08/26/2018  12:37 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coffeyce to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Very interesting. I notice on a few coins that there are minor variations like your not listed in wildwinds and other places even the RIC. mostly its dots stars, placements of hands (up down) and weapons leaning or straight up.
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 Posted 01/18/2025  12:59 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mc9 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
This is a RIC VII Heraclea nr 96 coin.
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I agree with mc9 (btw, welcome to CCF)

Looks like a standard RIC 96: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=908642
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01/18/2025 7:40 pm
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