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<p>[QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 4650869, member: 14873"]RIC Volume VI, Londinium, Group I, (ii), folles, Class II, (b), No. 17-22, c. 300 onward, larger, laureate elongated head on shorter neck (10.8 - 9.0 gm).</p><p><br /></p><p>No. 20? - Constantius - Caesar of the west:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1148635[/ATTACH]</p><p>FL VAL CONSTANTIVS NOB C ..................... GENIO POPV -- LI ROMANI</p><p><br /></p><p>Laureate, cuirassed, bust facing right</p><p><br /></p><p>Note the large, well spaced and delicate letterforms on the reverse and the long wreath ribbon tie laying on the neck. - almost like that on much of the Invasion coinage. The letterforms on the obverse are small, thick and compact in the “London style”, however. All that has led some collectors to suggest that this is actually a Bastien intermediate issue and I even identified it as such at one time. I am still not so sure about all that now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 4650869, member: 14873"]RIC Volume VI, Londinium, Group I, (ii), folles, Class II, (b), No. 17-22, c. 300 onward, larger, laureate elongated head on shorter neck (10.8 - 9.0 gm). No. 20? - Constantius - Caesar of the west: [ATTACH=full]1148635[/ATTACH] FL VAL CONSTANTIVS NOB C ..................... GENIO POPV -- LI ROMANI Laureate, cuirassed, bust facing right Note the large, well spaced and delicate letterforms on the reverse and the long wreath ribbon tie laying on the neck. - almost like that on much of the Invasion coinage. The letterforms on the obverse are small, thick and compact in the “London style”, however. All that has led some collectors to suggest that this is actually a Bastien intermediate issue and I even identified it as such at one time. I am still not so sure about all that now.[/QUOTE]
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