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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Teddydogno1, post: 2006299, member: 71226&quot;]Thanks, gentlemen.&nbsp; See, I didn&#039;t even realize that Constans was a separate ruler!&nbsp; I thought it was just an abbreviated legend.&nbsp; Wildwinds was where I was looking and didn&#039;t see this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Looking at the Helvetica list and think I see a couple of likely options.&nbsp; I did know that the &lt;something&gt;SIS was a Siscia mint mark.&nbsp; Not sure what that something is, though.&nbsp; Looks kind of like a B, but also a bit like a Sigma.&nbsp; Since I don&#039;t see &quot;Sigma SIS&quot; listed, I guess I&#039;ll go with &quot;B&quot; and a trailing &quot;dot in crescent&quot; for the mint mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like this:</p><p>Constans Siscia 346-348 AD</p><p>Obv:&nbsp; CONSTAN-S PF AVG rosette-diadem, draped, cuirassed </p><p>Rev:&nbsp; GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS chi-rho on banner</p><p>Mintmark:&nbsp; BSIS dot in crescent</p><p>RIC VIII Siscia 99 c2</p><p><br /></p><p>or the same but with &quot;LROSDC&quot; for the bust type</p><p><br /></p><p>LROSDC laurel and rosette diademed, draped and cuirassed. The laurel leaves are denoted as longish () shapes.</p><p><br /></p><p>ROSDC rosette-diadem, draped, cuirassed. Note that the rosettes are often simple squares with a dot in the centre, note also that some of the RIC co-authors described the LROS... type diademed (see above) simply as a ROS...</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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