RIC VI, LONDINIUM [before 263], CONSTANTINE, UNLISTED ISSUE [P M TR P COS II P P]

6-957

OBVERSE

CONSTANTINVSPFAVG [CONSTANTINVS P F AVG]; bust r., laur., cuir.

REVERSE

P•M•TR•P•C-OS•II•P•P• [P•M•TR•P•COS•II•P•P•]; diademed person (female?) std. to l. on double cornucopiae, cloak over l. shoulder, r. holding sceptre. Star in left field. PLN in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED ISSUE. Omitted in RIC, but already listed in Cohen, vol. VII, p. 275, no. 397 (cited after Mionnet). See also: Pierre Strauss, “Un Nouveau Nummus de Constantin 1^st Frappé à Londres”, [in:] Mélanges de numismatique offerts à Pierre Bastien à l'occasion de son 75^e anniversaire, H. Huvelin, M. Christol, G. Gautier (eds.), Wetteren 1987, pp. 181-185. Rare dated coin, probably struck at the beginning of the year 313 to commemorate the second consulship of Constantine, which started on the January 1st 312. Listed in Huvelin (no. 204). Listed in Cloke-Toone (7.12.001). Should be listed in RIC after LONDINIUM 265.

NOTES

Weight 3.90 g; diameter 21 mm. From the Nicola Tammaro Collection.
Other specimens:
- from the Portable Antiquities Scheme database (ID: NMS-60CB48); note that almost all dots in rev. legend are clearly visible; plate coin in Cloke-Toone; weight 2.12 g [click for picture];
- from Huvelin (plate 15, no. 204); Museu da Moeda (Lisbon, Portugal), no. 2952; plate coin in Cloke-Toone; weight 4.00 g [click for picture]; another picture of the same coin from Strauss' paper cited above (plate 13, no. 1).