RIC VII, ROME [after 43], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED ISSUE [VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP]

OBVERSE	CONSTAN-TINVSAVG [CONSTANTINVS AVG]; bust r., laur. helmet, cuir.
REVERSE	VICTORIAELAETAEPRINCPERP [VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP]; two Victories facing one another, holding shield inscribed VOT/X over altar. PR in exergue.
NOT IN RIC	UNLISTED ISSUE. Attested in Cohen, vol. VII, p. 304, no. 641. Listed in Depeyrot (p. 89, no. 18/1 for obv. legend break A-N and 18/2 for N-T). Specimen was known to the both authors of RIC VI and VII. However, Bruun in RIC VII assumes that this coin belongs in RIC VI: "In addition VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP/VOT X coins were created for the quinquennalia, 31 March 311/312" (p. 281). Note that Bruun believed at that time that the battle of Milvian Bridge happened in 311. On the other hand, Sutherland in RIC VI mentions in "Addenda" (p. 688): "The solidus with rev. VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP/VOT X, given by Bruun (R.I.C. vii, p. 281) to the period 312-313, is correctly dated by M. Alföldi (C.G. 648) to 315" (time when Constantine was celebrating his decennalia in Rome). As a result, coin is listed neither in RIC VI nor in RIC VII, but probably should be listed after ROME 43. See also: ROME [after 43], LICINIUS I, UNLISTED ISSUE [VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP] TICINUM [after 32], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED ISSUE [VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP]

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Solidus. Weight 4.41 g. Coin sold on Tkalec auction 2001 (lot 375) in February 2001 for CHF 14,000; sold on CNG Triton VI (lot 1086) in January 2003 for USD 7,500; sold on Gemini III (lot 459) in January 2007 for USD 18,000; sold on Hermitage Fine Art auction NUMISMATICS (lot 106) in November 2019 for EUR 22,000; sold on Gadoury Monaco 2021 (lot 164) in October 2021 for EUR 8,500. Other specimens: - from the British Museum Collection (reg. no. R.158; weight 4.62 g; obv. legend break A-N [click for picture]; - from the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Collection (reg. no. 18229705); weight 4.81 g; diameter 18 mm [click for picture]; - from Hess 1935, Sammlung Franz Trau, lot 3844, p. 104 and plate 44; weight 4.33 g [click for picture]; - sold on Künker auction 182 (lot 903) in March 2011 for EUR 4,700; weight 4.55 g; obv. legend break A-N [click for picture]; - from: Patrick Bruun, "The bellum Cibalense of AD 316", [in:] Essays in Honour of Robert Carson and Kenneth Jenkins, Spink, London 1993, plate XLII, no. 7 [click for picture]; - from Bellinger, A. R., Bruun, P., Kent, J. P. C., Sutherland, C. H. V., "Late Roman Gold and Silver Coins at Dumbarton Oaks: Diocletian to Eugenius", Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol. 18 (1964), p. 179, no. 44; weight 4.618 g; obv. legend break A-N [click for picture]; - sold on Bank Leu auction 36 (lot 338) in May 1985 for CHF 8,500; weight 4.11 g; obv. legend break A-N [click for picture].