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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor_Clark, post: 24740972, member: 10613&quot;]I have looked for an example of this coin for 20 years and finally found one. It&#039;s not much to look at; but it is pretty rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582711[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantius II</p><p>A.D. 348- 350</p><p>18x19mm 2.0g</p><p>D N CONSTAN-TIVS P F AVG; pearl diademed, draped and cuirassed bust.</p><p>FEL TEMP REPARATIO; radiate phoenix on rocky nest.</p><p>In ex. RT</p><p>RIC VIII Rome --</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is not listed in RIC without star in left field of reverse cf. RIC VIII Rome 141</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>What is special about this coin is that the phoenix is on a rocky nest—a type only issued from Rome. I first became aware of this type in 2003 after ready Failmezger’s&nbsp; <b>Roman Bronze Coins: From Paganism to Christianity 294-364 A.D. </b>His example is below.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582712[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The FEL TEMP phoenix reverse has three different types. The first, is the phoenix on a globe-- the globe represents the cosmos.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582713[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The second type is a phoenix on a mound/pyre. You see different descriptions because it is not known for sure if the phoenix is standing on a rocky mound or maybe emerging from a pyre.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582714[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The third type is the rocky nest from Rome.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I found the rocky nest example mixed in a group of coins from CNG. You can see the obverse on the bottom, second from the right.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582715[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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