Roman Nummi (folli) of the Late 3rd - Early 4th Century

That is a very nice Constantius I, the father of Constantine, Al Kowsky. Also these earlier heavier pieces are quite attractive. I guess you removed the slab in order to get the weight and the nice photo?

Due to the increased interest in nummi of the Tetarchy, I fixed parts of my website over the weekend and added a link to this thead under my "tetarchy page". The site & page is located here: {coinsandhistory.com}
https://coinsandhistory.com/countri...ents_48_Rome_Empire_Tetarchy-Constantine.html

Of course with only 2 Tetarchy nummi, it's hard to do a real good page on that subject but I hope in the future I can do a roadmap of rulers, regions, timeline, & coins. Also some of my history needs revision as I was focusing on learning web design. Unfortunately my site is only plain HTML rather than WordPress or another CMS. I've found HTML gives me a lot of capability/ flexibility to do whatever I want.

 

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Fugio1, I was bewildered at the Surface 4/5 grade too . There is a planchet flaw on the reverse edge at 7:00 o'clock that may have influenced the grader. There is also some microscopic porosity on the reverse too, but it's been covered by the original silvering. This coin is virtually as struck.

 

Gallienus, It looks like you're off to a good start on the Tetrarchy section . You might want to correct the spelling of Tetrarchy (you forgot the 1st R) . Your nummi of Constantine I & Julian are both gems & needle sharp strikes. The reverse of the Constantine I nummus is especially attractive . Not only is the engraving well done but it's obviously an early strike from the die, something you rarely see on these nummi. BTW, I had this coin slabbed after it was photographed. The only coins I slab are very high grade coins that I don't want touched by human hands or contaminated by our polluted atmosphere.

 

Thanks very much Al. Also the page was misspelled so I corrected that as well as putting a menu item to the Tetrarchy page on my homepage.
The corrected link is:
https://coinsandhistory.com/countri...nts_48_Rome_Empire_Tetrarchy-Constantine.html

Slabbing to protect coins is often a good idea. I try to use silica gel packets & such in my safety deposit box but may look into a small moisture, and temperature recorder like some museums use.

The Constantine coin was purchased because I do a talk for 6th grade classes at my local high school on "Ancient History as Shown by Coins". The 6th grade curricula includes "Rome & the beginnings of Christianity". I've been using my milarense of Constantine II as a poor substitute but when I saw the nice nummus of Constantine I, I bought it for that reason.

I guess these large? nummi degenerated into the smaller bronze and orichalum pieces we see identified only as AE3's by the mid 4th century?

Another late item I like are the siliqua of latter Rome (of which I also have exactly 2). More expensive than the nummi but even rarer ones seem to be generally affordable. I think even Julius Nepos issued siliqua.

Finally I got my 301 redirect to work so that "All roads lead to Rome" i.e. all posted links lead to the correct page. To clarify, since I'm not using WordPress, but HTML, I work directly on a webpage with a name. It has a lot more flexibility/power than WordPress but you have to be precise with links & page names.