RIC VII, CONSTANTINOPLE [before 29], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED OBVERSE, OFFICINA A

OBVERSE	ANEPIGRAPHIC (no legend); head r. with rosette-diadem, looking upwards.
REVERSE	CONSTANTINI-ANADAFNE [CONSTANTINIANA DAFNE]; Victory std. l. on cippus, palm branch in each hand, looking r.; trophy in front, at the foot of which kneeling captive turning head, spurned by Victory. A in left field. CONS in exergue.
NOT IN RIC	UNLISTED OBVERSE - ANEPIGRAPHIC. Variety not attested in RIC. According to Victor Clark, this type was known to Voetter (cf. Otto Voetter, Constantinvs Junior. Insbesonders seine Münzen als Augustus und die gleichzeitigen Kupferprägungen in den römischen Münzstätten, Wien 1909, p. 9; example from officina B [click for picture] and Maurice (cf. Jules Maurice, Numismatique constantinienne, vol. II, Paris 1911, p. 514: "Une pièce du musée de Gothe présente une tête diadémée sans légende"), then forgotten and rediscovered circa 1989 (cf. R.S. Speck and Stephen M. Huston, Constantine's Dafne Coinage at Constantinople, San Francisco 1992; two coins from officina A and one from officina S). See also CORRIGENDA, VOL. VII, p. 574-575 and important comments on Dafne coinage in: Lars Ramskold, "The silver emissions of Constantine I from Constantinopolis, and the celebration of the millennium of Byzantion in 333/334 CE", Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 2016, vol. 68. Coin should be listed before CONSTANTINOPLE 29. See also: CONSTANTINOPLE [before 29], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED OBVERSE, OFFICINA B CONSTANTINOPLE [before 29], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED OBVERSE, OFFICINA Γ CONSTANTINOPLE [before 29], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED OBVERSE, OFFICINA Δ CONSTANTINOPLE [before 29], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED OBVERSE, OFFICINA Є CONSTANTINOPLE [before 29], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED OBVERSE, OFFICINA S CONSTANTINOPLE [before 29], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED OBVERSE, OFFICINA Z

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Weight 2.76 g; diameter 20 mm. Sold on CNG auction XXXV (lot 1002) in September 1995; sold on CNG Triton VIII (lot 1248) in January 2005 for USD 650; sold on CNG eAuction 322 (lot 622) in March 2014 for USD 1,200; sold on CNG eAuction 387 (lot 517) in March 2014 for USD 360. Other specimens: - offered on Numismatik Naumann auction 73 (lot 598), January 2019 (apparently the specimen shown below after cleaning); sold on Leu Numismatik auction 7 (lot 1735) in October 2020 for CHF 1,500; weight 3.15 g; diameter 20 mm [click for picture]; - sold on Numismatik Naumann auction 69 (lot 438) in September 2018 for EUR 380; weight 3.20 g; diameter 20 mm [click for picture]; - offered on Gorny & Mosch auction 253 (lot 811), March 2018; offered on Solidus Numismatik Premium-Auktion 35 (lot 124), October 2018; sold on Roma Numismatics eSale 70 (lot 1376) in May 2020 for GBP 600; weight 3.06 g; diameter 18 mm [click for picture].