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Author Topic: Unusual standard on a Gloria Exerc of Constantine(finally solved - Constans)  (Read 565 times)

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Offline Peter G5

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Dear Board,

I spent several hours browsing Gloria Exercituses to find a similar standard (because the exergue was broken of mine).
Have anyone seen similar one,  and where was it minted?
16 mm
0.8 gram (originally it might be 1-1.1 gram)

Thank you for your help,

Offline BiancasDad

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Re: Unusual standard on a Gloria Exerc of Constantine
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2016, 06:26:10 am »
Not much to go on but the style reminds me of Trier.

Offline Peter G5

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Re: Unusual standard on a Gloria Exerc of Constantine
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2016, 01:43:12 pm »
Yes, this is my opinion too, but i have not found any similar example yet.  I saw similar standards on the 2 standard versions only. May it a transitory type frome 2 standards to 1?

Offline Merinda

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Re: Unusual standard on a Gloria Exerc of Constantine
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2016, 04:39:02 pm »
It looks a bit like the exergue starts R :dot:, so perhaps Rome, which has a mint mark R :dot:F :dot:P for Constantius II and Constans (Volume 8, numbers 57 & 58)

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Re: Unusual standard on a Gloria Exerc of Constantine
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2016, 07:59:19 pm »
Such tall thin standards can also be found on examples from Antioch and Alexandria though the mint mark does not look like theirs.

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Offline Peter G5

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Unusual standard on a Gloria Exerc of Constantine(finally solved - Constans)
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2017, 07:16:37 am »
If anyone interested:
after further investigation it proved Rome mint, most probably RIC VIII Rome 26. DN FL CONSTANS AVG / GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS

(rev. legend break position, o on banner, no obv. legend break, LROSDC bust -> wildwinds examples)

Thank you for your help and advises!




 

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