RIC VII, ROME, CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED ISSUE [VOTA PVBLICA] (Festival of Isis)

OBVERSE	CO[NSTANTI]-NVSMAXAVG [CONSTANTINVS MAX AVG]; bust r., rosette-diadem, dr., cuir.
REVERSE	VOTA-PVBLICA [VOTA PVBLICA]; Anubis stg. l., holding sistrum and caduceus.
NOT IN RIC	UNLISTED ISSUE. Specimen belongs to the Festival of Isis coins (tokens), first struck by Diocletian and continued until the 380s. Type of rev. listed for Constantine I in Vagi (no. 3427), but neither obv. legend, nor bust is specified. Listed in Alföldi (p. 61, no. 22 and plate I, no. 11). See: Lars Ramskold, "A die link study of Constantine’s pagan Festival of Isis tokens and affiliated coin-like ‘fractions’: chronology and relation to major imperial events", Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 66, 2016, pp. 157-239.

NOTES

Weight 1.44 g; diameter 13.7 mm. From the American Numismatic Society Collection (reg. no. 1944.100.84976). Other specimens: - from Sternberg auction XV (lot 726), April 1985; weight 1.10 g; rev. legend break P-V [click for picture].