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

OBVERSE	LICIN-IVSAVG [LICINIVS AVG]; bust r., laur., 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. Depeyrot 18/3. Specimen from the issue dated to 315 and minted probably for Constantine's decennalia celebrated in Rome. Published in Cohen, vol. VII, p. 206, no. 175. Should be listed after ROME 43. See also: ROME [after 43], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED ISSUE [VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP]

NOTES

Solidus. Weight 4.15 g. From the British Museum Collection (reg. no. R.138). Other specimens: - sold on Numismatica Ars Classica auction 146 (lot 2397) in May 2024 for CHF 9,500; weight 4.23 g; diameter 17 mm [click for picture]; - sold on Numismatica Ars Classica auction 49 (lot 455) in October 2008 for CHF 6,000; sold on Grün auction 76 (lot 379) in May 2019 for EUR 8,200; weight 4.48 g [click for picture]; - ex Lars Ramskold; sold on Leu Numismatik web auction 25 (lot 2752) in March 2023 for CHF 4,000; weight 4.61 g; diameter 17 mm [click for picture]; - from Hess-Leu auction in March 1961 (lot 409); weight 4.25 g [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. 8 [click for picture].