6-1948

RIC VI, ROMA [before 245], CONSTANTIUS, UNLISTED OBVERSE LEGEND

  

OBVERSE

IMPMAXENTIVSDIVOCONSTANTIOCOGNAT [IMP MAXENTIVS DIVO CONSTANTIO COGNAT]; head r., veiled.

REVERSE

AETERNAE-MEMORIAE [AETERNAE MEMORIAE]; eagle with wings spread stg. r. on domed tetrastyle shrine with doors (arched or flat-topped) ajar. RET in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED OBVERSE LEGEND. Not attested in RIC. RIC lists only shorter variant: ...COGN instead of ...COGNAT (see ROMA 245; ANS 1944.100.3018, 5.83 g; 23 mm; cited in RIC). Listed in Drost (p. 323, no. 182). Should be listed in RIC before ROMA 245.

See also:
ROMA [before 252], CONSTANTIUS, UNLISTED OBVERSE LEGEND

NOTES

Weight 6.36 g. From the British Museum Collection (reg. no. B.2104).

Other specimens:

- from Drost (plate 42, no. 182/2); weight 7.99 g [click for picture].

- from Garaffo-Santangelo, p. 361 and no. 8 on p. 356; weight 5.66 g; diameter 24 mm [click for picture].


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski