RIC VI, OSTIA [before 72], CONSTANTINE, UNLISTED FOR RULER

OBVERSE	CONSTANTINVSAVG [CONSTANTINVS AVG]; bust r., laur., cuir.
REVERSE	PRINCIPII-VV-ENTVTIS [PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS]; emperor stg. r., bare head, in military dress, cloak spread, r. holding transverse spear, l. globe. POST in exergue.
NOT IN RIC	UNLISTED FOR RULER. RIC list similar issue only for Licinius (OSTIA 72; J. Schulman 10.05.1926, lot 730; cited in RIC, same rev. die, posibly also 1½ scripula but weight not given). Not listed in Depeyrot. Should be listed before OSTIA 72.

NOTES

AV fraction. Weight 1.50 g (1½ scripula or 9 siliquae). From Emporium Hamburg auction 104 (lot 629), November 2023. Other specimens: - from Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands (ID: PAN-184131); weight 1.51 g; diameter 14.8 mm; from the same dies [click for picture] [Thanks to the collaboration of Anton Cruysheer].