Constantine the Great - BONO GENIO

[maridvnvm]

A recent acquisition that I thought worth sharing. It has been largely destroyed by the cleaner but I thought itinteresting despite the damage.

Constantine the Great - Follis

Obv:– FL VALERIVS CONSTANTINVS P F AVG, laureate head right
Rev:– BONO GENIO PII IMPERATORIS, Genius standing left, holding patera and cornucopia
Minted in Alexandria (crescent / K G / P //ALE)
Reference:– RIC VI 138 var. (unlisted officina).

26.94 mm, 6.05g, 0 degrees

Martin

[SC]

Nice find!  Too bad about the scratch marks.  Ancient or a horribly inept cleaner?

I was very lucky to find mine in a tray a dealer had of unlabelled coins.  All were GENIO POPVLI ROMANI but this one.  His prices were a bit high for the GPR, but a good deal for the BGPI.

Shawn

[curtislclay]

"Not in RIC" cites another specimen from the same third officina, different dies from yours on both sides, from CNG 84, 5 May 2010, lot 1517, ex White Mountain Collection.

[quadrans]

Interesting coin Martin ..

Nice find..

Q.

[Vincent]

Here is one from the first workshop...pic from Victor Clark

http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/types/bono.jpeg


Nice coin and great eye to catch....shame on the one who scratched it

Have ones of Maximinus Daza from all workshops.
Interesting type from the Alexandrian mint

[Misko M]

Get rid of that BD , its already srcatched so if some more copper shows up its ok.Anyway nice to have this one in collection.