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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2031854, member: 42773&quot;]I guess I&#039;m on a bit of a Brothers-Constantine binge. I found this AE3 of Constantius II today and made a low-ball offer which the seller actually accepted. These little Vota coins are typically in poor condition - struck off-center and extremely worn. They must have circulated hard, and there must have been a lot of them at some point. RIC lists no less than 10 officinae churning out Vota coins with this mint mark, RIC VIII 47, although it appears that coins of Constantius II were made primarily by the second, third, fourth, and sixth.</p><p><br /></p><p>Seller&#039;s pic...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]369835[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a tidbit from RIC...</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The inhabitants of the city of Cyzicus comprised, according to Sozomen, two main classes: those working in the imperial textile factory, and those employed at the mint.&quot; (RIC VIII, p. 486) Interesting. I didn&#039;t think of the Romans as having textile factories - that sounds more like something of the Industrial Revolution. I wonder what they were like?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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