We have had many good threads on the attractive and common AE FEL TEMP REPARATIO coins, including this one recently: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ftrs-isnt-always-about-the-horsemen.300931/ and this thread too: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/more-ftr-horsemen.300914/ I am starting this new thread because this FTR I just bought is really quite different: It is a silver siliqua, 20-19 mm and 2.96 grams. RSC V Constantius II #30 RIC VIII Rome 59 struck "c. 347" [This is a year before the AE FTR types begin.] The reverse legend is FEL TEMP REPARATIO [Extremely common on later AE, not common on siliquae] with Victory right inscribing "VOT XX on a shield help up by an Atlas-like kneeling figure. R (for Rome) is in exergue. Show us any "different" FTR you have!
For those ignorant people (like me) who don't know FTR... http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/ftr.html
This is unusual. It is like an old late 2nd/early 3rd century denarius reverse with the shield being held on the back of a person versus a palm.
Here is another coin with a shield being inscribed. Anastasius I (491-518), Semissis, Constantinople, c. 507-518, 2.00g, 17.90 mm. Obv: Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right Anastasius PP AVG Rev: Victory seated right, inscribing shield set on knee; star to left, staurogram to lower right; Victoria AVGG. CONOB in Exergue CONOB. MIBE 10; DOC 9; S. 7. Very fine. London Coin Galleries, Auction 4 - Part 1Lot 1144 June 1, 2017
Fascinating coin. Could that be a barbarian or captive holding the shield, which would align it with other FTR imagery from those of 348 AD.?
