CONSTANTINO from Arles

I am the lucky one who now owns one of four coins with this very peculiar obverse text issued at Arles in France.
DN CONSTANTINO IVN NOB C laureate draped and cuirassed bust of the caesar seen from behind to the right.
VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP Two victories facing, holding a shield inscribed VOT/PR over an altar. In the exergue: S star-in-crescent A
The dative form ending in O on the obverse is also seen in Lyon, but never in Arles, apart from this coin. The decoration of the altar with vertical stripes occurs once with a coin of the same series in the name of Constantine Augustus.
The coin is still ' dans son jus' as the French say, but can be restored to its original silver which is present under the green muck.
Hope you understand my enthousiasm.

Frans

 

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Hello Frans, congrats on your new acquisition. It's rare, but I think there are more than four examples. The Bikic-Do hoard had one --



which is also listed in Ferrando.

and here are some more examples--

 

Hi Victor,
Yes, I have found the type, but the officina secunda is not in Ferrando, which makes it a little rarer

 

Hello Frans, sorry I was not paying enough attention and did not notice you were talking about the second workshop. Mea Culpa

 

Obverse cleaned up nicely; several hours painstakingly scratching away the malachite encrustrations is rewarding

 

Awesome work - very nice!

 

Finally.... both obverse and reverse are done; reverse was terrible: less silver, more green, fine detail etc. But I am content with the final result.

 

Very impressive - I would never have guessed all that silvering was there, and you did an amazing job of preserving it!

 

Great clean-up job. The only Constantino type I have is this one:

 

I'm very impressed how this coin turned out. That is one superbe cleaning job.

 

This is something you can't have professionally done, as it took me up to 16 hours in total!