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REVERSE
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PROVIDEN-TIAEAVGG [PROVIDENTIAE AVGG]; camp gate, two turrets, star above, no doors, varying number of stone layers. Q crescent T in exergue.
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NOT IN RIC
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UNLISTED REVERSE LEGEND. RIC lists for this issue legend D N CONSTANTINI MAX AVG and the legend shown here - PROVIDENTIAE AVGG - was not in use in Ticinum at all. General note from p. 357: "The other type of the last period is the camp-gate reverse, found in Ticinum with the legend D N CONSTANTINI MAX AVG for Constantine instead of the customary PROVIDENTIAE AVGG [...] as in all other mints". However, in the footnote 198 on p. 386 Bruun notes that "Maur. [Maurice, Jules, Numismatique constantinienne i-iii, Paris, 1908-12] ii, p. 275, rev I, records PROVIDENTIAE AVGG 1 (B1) [i.e. with obverse legend CONSTANTINVS AVG, head r., laur.] and maintains that he has seen one specimen in V [Vienna, Bundessammlung von Münzen aund Medaillen, Kunsthist. Museum]: not to be found". On the other hand, this issue is dated for year 326, time of Constantine's sole reign, which makes the legend with AVGG (Augusti, pluralis) nonsense.
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