7-396

RIC VII, CONSTANTINOPLE [before 131B], CONSTANTINE II, UNLISTED FOR RULER [...CAESAR]

  

OBVERSE

ANEPIGRAPHIC (no legend); head r. with plain diadem, looking upwards.

REVERSE

CONSTANTI-NVSCAESAR [CONSTANTINVS CAESAR]; Victory advancing l., holding wreath, palm branch. M in left field. CONSΘ in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED FOR RULER. RIC lists this issue only for Constantine I and Constantius II (CONSTANTINOPLE 131A and CONSTANTINOPLE 131B in "Addenda and Corrigenda", p. 719). See also note in "Addenda and Corrigenda" to p. 584, no. 99A on p. 719. Emission 5 (333-334) in Ramskold - Constantinople silver. Coin should be listed in RIC before CONSTANTINOPLE 131B.

See also:
CONSTANTINOPLE [before 131B], CONSTANTINE II, UNLISTED FOR RULER [...CAES]

NOTES

Siliqua. Weight 2.86 g; diameter 20 mm. Coin sold on Solidus Sommer-Auktion 43 (lot 429) in June 2019 for EUR 550. Ex Lars Ramskold. Sold on Leu Numismatik web auction 25 (lot 2781) in March 2023 for CHF 420.

Other specimens:

- sold on Numismatik Lanz auction 117 (lot 1259) in November 2003 for EUR 240; weight 3.26 g; diameter 22 mm; rev. legend breaks N-TI-N [click for picture];

- from Ramskold's paper cited above, p. 152, fig. 2, I (eBay 2008); weight 3.41 g; rev. legend breaks N-TI-N [click for picture].


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski