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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 4606139, member: 56653&quot;]I&#039;m kind of upset about this that came from a British lot:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1141012[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>CONSTANTIUS II (337-361)</p><p>AE17mm 4.05g billon bronze maiorina/centenionalis, minted possibly at Trier, cca. September to November 353(?).</p><p>DN CONSTAN - TIVS PF AVG; pearl-diademed, draped cuirassed bust r; A behind bust</p><p>FEL TEMP RE - PARATIO; soldier spearing fallen horseman, bare-headed, reaching.</p><p>Exergue off-flan</p><p>cf. RIC VIII Trier 350-355</p><p><br /></p><p>The identification is not complete as the flan was too short for the dies, so the mintmark (and some legends) is off-flan, but judging by the style and the coins it came with, it is very likely a product of the Trier mint. The fourth series of the FH type at Trier is introduced after the discontinuation of the &quot;Revolt of Poemenius&quot; type, around September 353 and ended in November 353. As Constantius II took control of the West, mints began issuing his regular coinage -- the FH type -- sometimes, as it was the case at Trier, adding the markings that were carried over from the previous coinages, like the A behind the bust from the later smaller denominations of Magnentius from early 353.</p><p><br /></p><p>This should have been a smaller AE2 at around 20-21mm but instead, the short flan of 17mm shows it as an AE3/4, unfit for the standard of this fourth series. Perhaps the mint needed more time to accommodate the denominations of Constantius II after having minted either small AE3 denominations for Magnentius and Decentius in 352-353, a few different large denominations for Magnentius and Decentius in the first half of 353 and then a few large to medium denominations (AE1-AE2/3) during the &quot;Revolt of Poemenius&quot; episode in August-September 353.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is too heavy (4g+ instead of cca. 2.70-2.50g) and the obverse A mark does not fit with a fifth series small module AE3/4 of the period between the end of 353 and 356.</p><p><br /></p><p>For more discussion on the fourth series of FH see Koinon II pp. 125-127.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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