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RIC VII, LYONS [before 153], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED OBVERSE LEGEND, BUST TYPE B1 [IRREGULAR COIN]

  

OBVERSE

CONST-ANTINVS [CONSTANTINVS]; head r., laur.

REVERSE

BEATATRAN-QVILLITAS [BEATA TRANQVILLITAS]; globe set on altar inscribed VO/TIS/XX in three lines; above, three stars. C in left field, R in right field. PLG in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED OBVERSE LEGEND. RIC does not list obv. legend CONSTANTINVS without any title which is quite impossible to be official. Probably an ancient imitation.

See also:
LYONS [before 153], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED OBVERSE LEGEND, BUST TYPE D2

NOTES

Weight 3.06 g. From CNG auction 47 (lot 2023), September 1998.


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski