RIC VII, ROME, CONSTANTIUS II, UNLISTED ISSUE [VOTA VICENNALIOR] (Festival of Isis)

OBVERSE	FLIVLCONSTANTIVSNOBC [FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C]; bust r., laur., dr., cuir.
REVERSE	VOTA[VI]C-[ENNNALIOR] [VOTA VICENNNALIOR (sic!)]; prince in consular dress, std. facing on throne, looking l., sceptre in l. hand, mappa in raised r. hand.
NOT IN RIC	UNLISTED ISSUE. Specimen belongs to the Festival of Isis coins (tokens), first struck by Diocletian and continued until the 380s. Cohen (vol. VII, p. 491, no. 333; gives rev. legend VOTA VICENNALIOR, i.e. without error). Listed in Vagi (no. 3207). Not listed in catalogue in Alföldi but shown on plate I, no. 32. 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 (for this type especially pp. 207-211).

NOTES

Weight 1.76 g; diameter 15.6 mm. From Madrid, Museo Arqueológico Nacional 2014/61/561. Sharing the same rev. die with example of Constantine's II Vota vicennalior from Paris. Other specimens: - from a private collection (elagabale2000); the same rev. die; weight 1.74 g; diameter 14 mm [click for picture].