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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 8170237, member: 85693"]Interesting type, [USER=80952]@ambr0zie[/USER] - I was not familiar with that one, though my LRB knowledge is pretty scanty. My first thoughts on a DAFNE reference is <i>Scooby Doo's </i>Daphne Blake: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1427132[/ATTACH] </p><p>(the kind of image not found on FORVM <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> )</p><p><br /></p><p>But my LRB knowledge is growing some! Thanks to the generosity of CTer [USER=95247]@tenbobbit[/USER] I have been engaged in a months' long project of attributing a massive lot he sent me back in October (which I will post at some point, once I am further along). As I was working through this batch, I found some unusual types. This one in particular impressed me; at first it seems like a standard LRB goddess standing around type, but this reverse is a Rome-only issue for Constans after "The Great Massacre": </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1427126[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Constans Æ 17</b></p><p><b>(337-340 A.D.) </b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>D N FL CONSTANS AVG, laureate, rosette-diademed, draped & cuirassed bust right / SECVRITAS REIP, Securitas standing facing, leaning on column, holding sceptre.</p><p>R-heart or leaf-Q in exergue.</p><p>RIC VIII Rome 16.</p><p>(1.66 grams / 17 x 15 mm)</p><p>[USER=95247]@tenbobbit[/USER] Oct. 2021 </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks to [USER=10613]@Victor_Clark[/USER] and his wonderful Constantine the Great website, I was able to find some background to this issue: </p><p><br /></p><p>"After the death of Constantine on 22 May 337, there was an interregnum of some three months before his three sons were proclaimed Augusti on 9 Sept 337. It was during these three months that “The Great Massacre” occurred, when most of the other male members of Constantine’s family and their supporters were killed. During this period all the mints continued producing the GLORIA EXERCITVS coins except Rome, which was controlled by Constans. In Rome a new type was issued—SECVRITAS REI PVB. Constans apparently wanted the citizens to believe that the security of the Empire had been protected by the massacre."</p><p><a href="http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/Rulers/Constans/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/Rulers/Constans/" rel="nofollow">http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/Rulers/Constans/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 8170237, member: 85693"]Interesting type, [USER=80952]@ambr0zie[/USER] - I was not familiar with that one, though my LRB knowledge is pretty scanty. My first thoughts on a DAFNE reference is [I]Scooby Doo's [/I]Daphne Blake: [ATTACH=full]1427132[/ATTACH] (the kind of image not found on FORVM :rolleyes: ) But my LRB knowledge is growing some! Thanks to the generosity of CTer [USER=95247]@tenbobbit[/USER] I have been engaged in a months' long project of attributing a massive lot he sent me back in October (which I will post at some point, once I am further along). As I was working through this batch, I found some unusual types. This one in particular impressed me; at first it seems like a standard LRB goddess standing around type, but this reverse is a Rome-only issue for Constans after "The Great Massacre": [ATTACH=full]1427126[/ATTACH] [B]Constans Æ 17 (337-340 A.D.) Rome Mint[/B] D N FL CONSTANS AVG, laureate, rosette-diademed, draped & cuirassed bust right / SECVRITAS REIP, Securitas standing facing, leaning on column, holding sceptre. R-heart or leaf-Q in exergue. RIC VIII Rome 16. (1.66 grams / 17 x 15 mm) [USER=95247]@tenbobbit[/USER] Oct. 2021 Thanks to [USER=10613]@Victor_Clark[/USER] and his wonderful Constantine the Great website, I was able to find some background to this issue: "After the death of Constantine on 22 May 337, there was an interregnum of some three months before his three sons were proclaimed Augusti on 9 Sept 337. It was during these three months that “The Great Massacre” occurred, when most of the other male members of Constantine’s family and their supporters were killed. During this period all the mints continued producing the GLORIA EXERCITVS coins except Rome, which was controlled by Constans. In Rome a new type was issued—SECVRITAS REI PVB. Constans apparently wanted the citizens to believe that the security of the Empire had been protected by the massacre." [URL]http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/Rulers/Constans/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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