6-647

RIC VI, LONDINIUM [before 108], CONSTANTINE, UNLISTED REVERSE LEGEND

  

OBVERSE

IMPCONSTANTINVSPFAVG [IMP CONSTANTINVS P F AVG]; bust r., laur., cuir.

REVERSE

MARTIPATRIPROPVGNATORI [MARTI PATRI PROPVGNATORI]; Mars, helmeted, advancing r., r. holding transverse spear, l. shield. PLN in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED REVERSE LEGEND. RIC lists similar type [LONDINIUM 108 (BM 1959,1010.26; 6.57 g) and LONDINIUM 109 (BM 1927,0616.475; 6.013 g)] with shorter rev. legend: ...PROPVG instead of ...PROPVGNATORI. Listed in Cloke-Toone (5.04.007). Should be listed in RIC before LONDINIUM 108.

NOTES

Weight 5.91 g. Plate coin in Cloke-Toone. From B. H. I. H. Stewart, "Two Doubted London Coins of Constantine I", Numismatic Chronicle 1987, plate 27, no. 6.


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski