RIC VI, TREVERI [after 568], CONSTANTIUS, UNLISTED FOR RULER, REVERSE LEGEND VARIETY

OBVERSE	CONSTA-NTIVSNC [CONSTANTIVS N C]; head r., laur.
REVERSE	VO/T X/SIC/XX in four lines in wreath.
NOT IN RIC	UNLISTED FOR RULER, REVERSE LEGEND VARIETY. RIC lists this type for Diocletian and Galerius Maximian [all very rare! - R4 and R3] (p. 198). Note also rev. legend variety: VO/T X instead od VOT/X. See general note from p. 150: "The fractions, all rare, are safely attributable to Trier on grounds of portrait style. Their 'vota' reverses commemorate the joint vicennalia and decennalia of the Augusti and Caesars in and after 302. The issue as a whole - folles and fractions - falls c. 302-3". Listed in Zschucke BTP (p. 52, no. 3.9). Coin should be listed after TREVERI 568. See also: TREVERI [after 568], CONSTANTIUS, UNLISTED FOR RULER TREVERI [after 568], MAXIMIAN HERCULIUS, UNLISTED FOR RULER

NOTES

Fraction. From Hess 1935, Sammlung Franz Trau, lot 3574.