This is one of my favorites because it was slabbed as official. It shows how easily some of these unofficial issues could have circulated and...
it's from Siscia
they are sideburns...he also sometimes has a moustache during this hair phase, There is a clear moustache on your first coin, from Siscia. Here is...
or they are actually ostriches [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] an older thread on the now extinct Arabian ostrich...
online resources are great if you just want a catalogue number...which is kind of funny if you do not actually have the book. Most of the RIC...
check acsearch...they have several dozen examples-- some recent, some further back.
Your coin does not have a star in the mintmark, but a dot in the exergue. The author of RIC, Patrick Bruun, mentions this coin in the footnotes....
It Rome mint-- SM leaf RB
I've got an example of the earliest Licinius campgate with SMHT mintmark [ATTACH]
I also agree that it is unofficial. I have had some good style unofficial coins copying Ticinum, like the two below. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
This is RIC VII Cyzicus 55 with annulets on the diadem. [ATTACH]
These orbs are usually believed to be celestial spheres rather than the earth...of course there is always debate. see 'Symbolism of the Sphere'...
[ATTACH] Constantius I A.D. 294-5 Ӕ Antoninianus 23x24mm 3.3gm CONSTANTIVS NOB C; Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right. COMES AVGG; Minerva...
the Constantine is 22mm and the Gallienus is 21mm
because the countermark assigns it a value.
from my Carthage page (which I linked to earlier) Some of the references below have two RIC numbers. That is because RIC breaks up this issue by...
I also have a Gallienus with the same countermark [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] Constantine I struck A.D. 312- 313 and countermarked as a Spanish 4 maravedis, circa 14-15th century.
I have a page on these Carthage issues-- http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/Carthage/
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