7-1866

RIC VII, TRIER [after 489], CONSTANTINE II, UNLISTED BUST TYPE [B5 l.] [IRREGULAR COIN]

  

OBVERSE

ANEPIGRAPHIC (no legend); bust l., laur., cuir. [B5 l.].

REVERSE

CONSTAN/TINVS/CAESAR [CONSTANTINVS CAESAR]; rev. legend in three lines; star above. STR in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED BUST TYPE - B5 l. Not attested for obv. legend 7 (p. 210). Not listed in Zschucke BTP. Apparently an ancien imitation. Could be noted after TRIER 489.

NOTES

From NVMMVS BIBLE II (NBD no. 21953).

Other specimens:

- sold on eBay in May 2015 for GBP 35.60 (possible error in rev. legend) [click for picture] [Thanks to the collaboration of Tomasz Speier];

- from eBay, May 2015; (error in rev. legend; also crude style and/or tooling); weight 1.80 g; diameter 16 mm [click for picture] [Thanks to the collaboration of Tomasz Speier].


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski