I just got this coin and am pretty excited about it. I know that you'll say its nothing special, but I was trying to get one for some time and I just like it for some reason, so here it is, my little AE3:
That's a well-struck and well-centered example. Every coin deserves to be loved and I am glad it found a good home.
@Bing. Thanks, it sure is green and better looking than in photos, but my camera goes crazy in super macro mode, without flash
That is part of a series honoring Constantine's ancestors biological and adopted. He claimed descent from Claudius II and there was his father Constantius I. and there was his father Constantius I.
Doug, am I correct to notice that heads on Obverses of your coins and on my coins have slightly bowed posture. Is this usual look for the coins you mention?
The heads are shown with a drape over the head appropriate for the portrait of a dead person. Part of the bowed look may be due to my not rotating the image correctly.
besides the emperor seated, there were two other reverse types in this series, only minted at Rome though. Divus Constantius A.D. 317- 318 DIVO CONSTANTIO PIO PRINC; veiled head right. MEMORIAE AETERNAE, eagle standing right, looking left. In ex. RQ RIC VII Rome 111 Divus Maximianus A.D. 317-318 DIVO MAXIMIANO SEN FORT IMP; Laureate, veiled head of Maximianus right. MEMORIAE AETERNAE; Lion advancing right. In ex. RP RIC VII Rome 123
Bought mine in 1988 for $15: Divo Maximiano, struck by Constantine, 317 - 318 AD Æ17, Rome Mint, 2.1 grams Obverse: DIVO MAXIMIANO SEN FORT IMP, Veiled head right. Reverse: MEMORIAE AETERNAE, Eagle standing right with wings open and head turned left. Reference: RIC113
Here's another DIVO CLAVDIO one: Kind of a funny reverse legend: REQVIES OPTIMORVM MERITORVM. If I'm not mistaken, that basically means "a well deserved rest." !!
