6-719

RIC VI, ALEXANDRIA [after 9b], CONSTANTIUS, UNLISTED FOR RULER, ENGRAVER'S ERROR

   

OBVERSE

CONSTAN-TIVSCAE [CONSTANTIVS CAE (sic!)]; head r., laur.

REVERSE

VIRTVS-MILITAM [VIRTVS MILITAM (sic!)]; three-turreted camp-gate, open; no doors. Β in right field. ALE in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED FOR RULER. RIC lists this issue, with smaller portrait-head, only for Diocletian and Maximian Herculius, but note that it could be also ALEXANDRIA 12, unlisted for officina. Note also engraver's errors in legends: CAE instead of CAES and MILITAM instead of MILITVM (probably specific to engraver from officina B; see ALEXANDRIA 9a, DIOCLETIAN, UNLISTED OFFICINA Β, ENGRAVER'S ERROR, ALEXANDRIA 10a, DIOCLETIAN, UNLISTED OFFICINA Β, ENGRAVER'S ERROR and ALEXANDRIA 12, CONSTANTIUS, UNLISTED OFFICINA Β, ENGRAVER'S ERROR)

NOTES

Argenteus. Weight 3.19 g. Coin sold on Classical Numismatic Group auction (Triton XIII) in January 2010 for $900.


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski