6-1021

RIC VI, LUGDUNUM [after 55], CONSTANTIUS, UNLISTED BUST TYPE

  

OBVERSE

CONSTANTIVSNOBCAES [CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES]; bust r., laur., in imperial mantle, r. holding eagle-tipped sceptre.

REVERSE

GENIOPO[PV]-LIROMANI [GENIO POPVLI ROMANI]; Genius stg. l., modius on head, naked but for chlamys over l. shoulder, r. holding patera, l. cornucopiae. A in left field. PL in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED BUST TYPE. Not attested for obv. legend 3a (p 246), but cf. LUGDUNUM 58 with consular bust turned l. Not listed in Bastien Lyon (294-316) and Bastien Lyon - suppléments I-II. Coin should be listed in RIC after LUGDUNUM 55.

NOTES

Weight 5.57 g (sic!); diameter 28 mm. Rauceby hoard. From the British Museum Collection (reg. no. 2022,4018.284).

Other specimens:

- sold on eBay in May 2011 for EUR 84.15; weight 11.19 g; diameter 27 mm [click for picture].


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski