6-1162

RIC VI, LONDINIUM [after 210], LICINIUS, UNLISTED BUST TYPE

  

OBVERSE

IMPLICINIVSPFAVG [IMP LICINIVS P F AVG]; bust l., laur., in mantle.

REVERSE

GENIO-POPROM [GENIO POP ROM]; Genius stg. l., head towered, loins draped, r. holding patera, l. cornucopiae. Star in right field. PLN in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED BUST TYPE. Not attested for this issue (p. 134). Similar to bust type R, but without eagle-tipped sceptre. Listed in Huvelin (no. 104b). However, note that in Huvelin bust type for no. 104a-104b is described as draped and cuirassed (see p. 41; "buste lauré, drapé, cuirassé à gauche"). In the present author's opinion no. 104a has bust type L (bust l., laur., cuir.) and the bust of no. 104b could be described as "in mantle". See also CORRIGENDA, VOL. VI, p. 134. Listed in Cloke-Toone (7.05.009; bust trabeate). Should be listed in RIC after LONDINIUM 210.

See also:
LONDINIUM 210, LICINIUS, [CONFIRMATION]

NOTES

Weight 3.75 g; diameter 21 mm. From the V.F. Collection.

Other specimens:

- from Huvelin (plate 11, no. 104b); Boursies hoard, no. 296; weight 3.96 g [click for picture];

- from: William Sharp Ogden, "A find of Roman bronze coins on the Little Orme's Head, North Wales", British Numismatic Journal 1906, p. 34 and plate I, no. 5; weight 4.21 g [click for picture].


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski