RIC VI, ROMA [after 140], CONSTANTINE, UNLISTED FOR RULER

OBVERSE	CONSTANT-INVSNOBC [CONSTANTINVS NOB C]; head r., laur.
REVERSE	MARTICONS-ERV-A-VGGETCAESSNN [MARTI CONSERV AVGG ET CAESS NN]; Mars advancing r., r. holding transverse spear, l. shield. E in left field. PR in exergue.
NOT IN RIC	UNLISTED FOR RULER. RIC lists this type only for Maxentius (p. 368). General note from p. 340: "Maxentius has Marti Conserv Augg et Caess and shares Herculi Comiti Augg et Caess Nn with Constantine. [...] Date, from late 306 to early spring 307. The weight of these aurei [...] is mantained at a good level of c. 5.4 gm. They are mostly very rare". Depeyrot 15/7. Listed in Drost (p. 298, no. 8). Should be listed in RIC after ROMA 140.

NOTES

Aureus. Weight 4.69 g; diameter 18 mm. Partinico Hoard (p. 172, no. 99 and plate 23, no. 99). Shown in Drost (plate 17, no. 8/1). Ex Bank Leu auction 54 (lot 333), October 1991; Ex Leu Numismatik auction 91 (lot 685), May 2004; sold on Gadoury Monaco 2022 (lot 98) in October 2022 for EUR 20,000.