6-1207

RIC VI, ANTIOCHIA 87b, CONSTANTINE, [CORRECTION]

  

OBVERSE

FLVALCONSTANTINVSNOBCAES [FL VAL CONSTANTINVS NOB CAES]; head r., laur.

REVERSE

GENIOCA-ESARIS* [GENIO CAESARIS*]; Genius stg. l., modius on head, naked but for chlamys over l. shoulder, r. holding patera (from which liquor flows), l. cornucopiae. Є in right field. ANT in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

[CORRECTION]. According to RIC, ANTIOCHIA 87b has dot in m.m. (•ANT). However, all specimens known to the present author have m.m. without dot. Cf. similar variants for ANTIOCHIA 103-104 and ANTIOCHIA 106a-b.

See also:
ANTIOCHIA 105, CONSTANTINE, [CORRECTION]

NOTES

Weight 7.146 g; diameter 23 mm. Coin sold on eBay in November 2012 for EUR 89 [Thanks to the collaboration of Tomasz Speier].

Other specimens:

- from the British Museum Collection (reg. no. B.5608); cited in RIC; weight 6.43 g [click for picture].


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski