7-4037

RIC VII, SISCIA [after 188], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED ISSUE [FEL TEMP REPARATIO] (helmeted soldier) [FORGERY]

  

OBVERSE

IMPCONSTANTINVSPFAVG [IMP CONSTANTINVS P F AVG]; bust r., laur., cuir.

REVERSE

FELTE[M]P-REPARATIO [FEL TEMP REPARATIO]; Helmeted soldier to l. shield on l. arm, spearing falling horseman; shield on ground at right. Horseman wears pointed cap. BSIS in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED ISSUE. Formally this coin is unlisted in RIC VII but in fact it is a modern forgery: obverse of Constantine I with reverse which was introduced in Siscia in year 348, after Constantine's death.

See also:
SISCIA [after 188] CONSTANTINE II, UNLISTED ISSUE [FEL TEMP REPARATIO] (helmeted soldier) [FORGERY]
SISCIA [after 188], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED ISSUE (Emperor on galley) [FEL TEMP REPARATIO] [FORGERY] (the same rev. die)
SISCIA [after 188], CONSTANTINE II, UNLISTED ISSUE [FEL TEMP REPARATIO] (Emperor on galley) [FORGERY] (the same rev. die)
HERACLEA [before 51], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED OBVERSE LEGEND AND BUST TYPE [B5] [FORGERY] (the same obv. die)

NOTES

From Numismatikforum; posted by Amentia.

Other specimens:

- from Numismatikforum; posted by Amentia; from the same dies [click for picture].


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski