RIC VI, ROMA [before 1], CONSTANTIUS, UNLISTED ISSUE [PRINCIPI IVVENTVT]

OBVERSE	DNCONSTA-NTIONOBC [D N CONSTANTIO NOB C]; head r., laur.
REVERSE	PRINCIPIIVVENTVT [PRINCIPI IVVENTVT]; Prince stg. r. in military dress, r. holding transverse spear, l. globe. PROM in exergue.
NOT IN RIC	UNLISTED ISSUE. The mark PROM was already known to Cohen (cf. Cohen, vol. VI, p. 517, no. 254) and to Voetter (cf. Sammlung Bachofen von Echt, Wien 1903, p. 133, no. 2329). Also Percy H. Webb - the author of RIC V - mentioned that "the exergual mark PR is common on aurei of the new style before and after the Reform. PROM appears after that event" (RIC vol. V, part II, p. 214). Unfortunately, entire AV series with PROM m.m. was omitted in RIC VI, in error. Listed in Depeyrot (p. 83, no. 9/8). Should be listed in RIC before ROMA 1. See also: ROMA [before 1], CONSTANTIUS, UNLISTED ISSUE [PRINCIPI IVVENTVT]

NOTES

Lighter aureus. Weight 5.26 g. Coin sold on Gorny & Mosch auction 159 (lot 472) in October 2007 for EUR 5,000; sold on The New York Sale XXXII (lot 51) in January 2014 for USD 12,000. Other specimens: - sold on CNG auction 121 (lot 952) in October 2022 for USD 5,000; weight 5.13 g; diameter 18.5 mm [click for picture]; - from Bellinger, A. R., Bruun, P., Kent, J. P. C., Sutherland, C. H. V., "Late Roman Gold and Silver Coins at Dumbarton Oaks: Diocletian to Eugenius", Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol. 18 (1964), p. 170-171, no. 21; weight 4.656 g [click for picture].