RIC VII, TICINUM [after 204], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED ISSUE [CONSTANTINVS AVG], OFFICINA Q

OBVERSE	ANEPIGRAPHIC (no legend); head r., laur.
REVERSE	CONSTAN/TINVS/AVG in three lines; star above. Q crescent T in exergue.
NOT IN RIC	UNLISTED ISSUE. RIC lists dynastic bronze issues minted in Antioch, Nicomedia, Cyzicus, Constantinople, Thessalonica, Siscia and Rome. This specimen minted in Ticinum apparently belongs to this type. See: Lars Ramskold, "Constantine's Vicennalia and the Death of Crispus", Niš and Byzantium XI, 2013, p. 423. Note that LRBC (p. 13, no. 480) lists coin of this type minted in Ticinum for Constantine I. Coin should be listed in RIC after TICINUM 204. See also: TICINUM [after 204], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED ISSUE [CONSTANTINVS AVG], OFFICINA S TICINUM [after 204], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED ISSUE [CONSTANTINVS AVG], OFFICINA T TICINUM [after 204], CRISPUS, UNLISTED ISSUE [CRISPUS CAESAR]

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Weight 1.78 g; diameter 19 mm. Ex Lars Ramskold. Sold on Leu Numismatik web auction 26 (lot 5324) in July 2023 for CHF 750.