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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ancientnoob, post: 1771289, member: 44140&quot;]After nearly missing my towns local coin show, and a life saving phone call from Collect89, I promptly jumped in the car and made it to the show. This show is very small with only a handful of dealers and is often very, very thin on ancients. There is one or two sellers who have a couple laying around. So having $40 bucks in my pocket, I didn&#039;t expect to find anything interesting and affordable. After spotting a few I would say decent coins (Collect89&#039;s throwbacks) and a few overpriced 3rd century denarii, I notice a large black and green blotchy coin with no active corrosion and nice details. Marked $35, Ancientnoob always feels like he needs to make a deal, so $25 dollars got me the coin.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The coin reads IMP C CONSTANTIVS PF AVG with the Laureate head of the emperor on the obverse and the reverse reads GENIO POP ROM and PLC in the exergue, with a nice figure of Genius standing holding a cornucopia and Paterna before a lighted altar. I don&#039;t recall seeing to many of these large Constantine coins, so I felt it needed to come home with me. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>After doing some quick research (googling), the coin was minted in Lugdunum in 307-308 AD, it is described in a Freeman &amp; Sear mail bid auction in &#039;07 as a Billon Follis of Constantine the Great. RIC 259 marked as a rare. Rare or not the coin is phat, and I am happy it came home with Ancientnoob. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Constantine the Great 307-337 AD</p><p>Billon Follis Constantine as Ceasar (s.307-308 AD)</p><p>AE 27.4 mm x 6.98 g</p><p>Obverse: IMP CONSTANTIVS PF AVG - Laureate and Cuirassed bust of Constantine</p><p>Reverse: GENIO POP ROM- Genius Standing holding cornucopia and and Patera at lighted altar. </p><p>ref: RIC 529</p><p>[ATTACH=full]281793[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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