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

OBVERSE	IMPCONSTANTINVSPFAVG [IMP CONSTANTINVS P F AVG]; bust r., laur., dr., cuir.
REVERSE	VOTAP-VBLICA [VOTA PVBLICA]; Isis std. l. in galley, holding sistrum in raised r. hand and situla in l. hand, several rovers below her.
NOT IN RIC	UNLISTED ISSUE. Specimen belongs to the Festival of Isis coins, first struck by Diocletian and continued until the 380s. Type of rev. listed for Constantine I in Vagi (no. 3426), but neither obv. legend, nor bust is specified. Listed in Alföldi (p. 60, no. 12). See also: 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 2.31 g; diameter 17.2 mm. From Madrid, Museo Arqueológico Nacional 2014/59/868. Other specimens: - from Numismatica Ars Classica auction I (lot 2351), May 1999; weight 2.00 g [click for picture].