7-3573

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

  

OBVERSE

CONSTANTINVSIVNNOBC [CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C]; bust r., laur., dr., cuir.

REVERSE

V-OTAPV-BLL-C-A [VOTA PVBLLCA (sic!)]; Isis std. l., looking r., in galley, supporting sail.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED ISSUE. Specimen belongs to the Festival of Isis coins (tokens), first struck by Diocletian and continued until the 380s.

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 1.25 g; diameter 15 mm. From "Token Specimens from the Ancient Mediterranean". Bricault & Mondello specimen no. E39.1


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski