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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cobbler, post: 3185238, member: 97497&quot;]I’m very conscious of relying heavily on other people’s expertise so with regard to this coin from my father’s collection. I’ve looked at lots of examples&nbsp; and I’m sticking my neck out at the risk of getting it horribly wrong!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]821458[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is copper or bronze, 19mm diameter and about 5g in weight</p><p><br /></p><p>The mint mark is ?T which I presume we can take to be Tricinum, Italy. The preceding letter looks like an ’O’ but has almost certainly lost its bottom half.&nbsp; If it’s PT then it’s P(ecunia) T(ricinum)</p><p><br /></p><p>The bust has two short diagonal lines at centre top which suggests a laureate bust.&nbsp; It may be that I’m seeing what I want to see but I think the obverse legend is (IM)P CONSTANT (INVS P F AVG), i.e. Constantine the Great. The very strong jaw line is consistent with other busts of him that I’ve looked at.&nbsp; The shoulders are too worn to be able to tell if it&#039;s a draped or cuirassed bust.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse is certainly SOL and from other examples:&nbsp; SOLI IN (VI) CTO C(OMITI), Sol, standing front, head left, raising right hand and holding globe in left.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki</a> says:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>While previous emperors dedicated the coins to &quot;Soli Invicto,&quot; Constantine coins are dedicated to &quot;Soli Invicto Comiti”</i></p><p><br /></p><p>which reinforces my supposition that this is indeed a coin of Constantine the Great</p><p><br /></p><p>And this is where I really come unstuck. I could play safe and say it’s an AE3, but is it fact a follis?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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