6-2487

RIC VI, ALEXANDRIA 27a, CONSTANTIUS, UNLISTED OBVERSE LEGEND, ENGRAVER'S ERROR

  

OBVERSE

FALVALCONSTANTIVSNOBCAES [FAL (sic!) VAL CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES]; head r., laur.

REVERSE

GENIOPOPV-L-IROMANI [GENIO POPVLI ROMANI]; Genius stg l., modius on head, naked but for chlamys over l. shoulder, r. holding patera from liquor may or may not flow, r. cornucopiae. XXI in left field, Γ in right field. ALE in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED OBVERSE LEGEND, ENGRAVER'S ERROR. Specimen similar to ALEXANDRIA 27a except for FAL in obv. legend instead of FL. Apparently an engraver's error. Sutherland mentions in footnote 3 on p. 664 that Voetter noted somewhere "the same error for off. Γ".

NOTES

Weight 10.40 g; diameter 27 mm. Sold on AMCC auction 3 (lot 311) in July 2021 for CAD 230.


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski