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RIC VII, NICOMEDIA [before 117], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED FOR RULER [Victory]
  
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OBVERSE
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ANEPIGRAPHIC (no legend); head r. with plain diadem, looking upwards.
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REVERSE
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CONSTAN-TINVSAVG [CONSTANTINVS AVG]; Victory advancing l., holding wreath, palm branch. SMN in exergue.
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NOT IN RIC
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UNLISTED FOR RULER. RIC lists this issue only for Constantine II (p. 619). SMN in m.m. but this coin probably belongs to the same period as NICOMEDIA 117. See: Lars Ramskold, "Constantine's Vicennalia and the Death of Crispus", Niš and Byzantium XI, 2013, p. 447. Coin should be listed before NICOMEDIA 117.
See also:
NICOMEDIA [after 117], CONSTANTIUS II, UNLISTED FOR RULER [Victory]
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NOTES
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Siliqua. Weight 3.38 g; diameter 20 mm. Coin sold on Roma Numismatics auction XXVII (lot 754) in March 2023 for GBP 4,400.
Other specimens:
- sold on Roma Numismatics eSale 27 (lot 916) in May 2016 for GBP 420; weight 2.46 g; diameter 20 mm [click for picture];
- from Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris (picture from the Ramskold's paper cited above) [click for picture];
- from Wildwinds; contributed by MJ [click for picture].
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