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Title: CONSTANTIUS II AS CAESAR - GLORIA EXERCITVS - REVERSE C over left shoulder?
Post by: sinnb-sinnb on June 23, 2022, 09:24:25 am

Hi, has anyone seen this obverse before, where there are a reverse C over left shoulder?
or is it just a part of the crusade, that I have not seen before?
What do you think?

size: 17,3 mm

Weight: 2,35 g

SISCIA mint.

Title: Re: CONSTANTIUS II AS CAESAR - GLORIA EXERCITVS - REVERSE C over left shoulder?
Post by: Pekka K on June 23, 2022, 10:00:16 am

C is last letter of obverse legend:

http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.7.sis.221

Pekka K

Title: Re: CONSTANTIUS II AS CAESAR - GLORIA EXERCITVS - REVERSE C over left shoulder?
Post by: Lech Stępniewski on June 23, 2022, 10:16:13 am

Sometimes it is even stranger, when the engraver miscalculated the space needed for obverse legend and the last letter is placed already on the portrait.

Title: Re: CONSTANTIUS II AS CAESAR - GLORIA EXERCITVS - REVERSE C over left shoulder?
Post by: sinnb-sinnb on June 23, 2022, 10:40:44 am

The text on the coin would then be:

FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C C, as I understand it, is that correct?
I have never seen the legend end with NOB C C, so that is also odd.

Title: Re: CONSTANTIUS II AS CAESAR - GLORIA EXERCITVS - REVERSE C over left shoulder?
Post by: Pekka K on June 23, 2022, 10:47:54 am

I read only one C:

Title: Re: CONSTANTIUS II AS CAESAR - GLORIA EXERCITVS - REVERSE C over left shoulder?
Post by: sinnb-sinnb on June 23, 2022, 10:52:03 am

It is the C over the shoulder I ask for not the C in the text around.

But finding another picture, I now see, that it is a part of the the Crusade, or something hanging down from behind.

Title: Re: CONSTANTIUS II AS CAESAR - GLORIA EXERCITVS - REVERSE C over left shoulder?
Post by: Lech Stępniewski on June 23, 2022, 11:18:13 am

Quote from: sinnb-sinnb on June 23, 2022, 10:52:03 am

something hanging down from behind.

Now I get it. What you recognized as letter "C" is in fact a loop to attach the paludamentum.