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Message:: [QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2704257, member: 19463"]Something to remember about horsemen is that they are extremely common as a group but 90% of the total count are the small, late, poorly made ones that were churned out at a furious pace toward the end of the time of Constantius II.  Horsemen are a dime a dozen.  Finding nice examples of the large (AE2), early ones will not be easy but perhaps easier than finding nice examples of the tiny ones.  These tend to be a lot like the AE4 example at the bottom of my Alexandria image from my page on the type.<img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fhale.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />Actually it is better than most of what it represents (Julian II as Caesar).  For specialists like Randy, the varieties are quite different types.  Most collectors won't want four variations (FH1-4) from 15 mints in three sizes (S-M-L, actually not all these exist because some mints only produced for part of the total time horsemen were issued).   Finding the 'one' that speaks to you, individually, might be a hard decision.  After all, who would want a coin like the Constantius II below that thrilled me when it came my way?  RIC 316 p278  is only an R but harder to find better than this than most of the 2200 variations.[ATTACH=full]609155[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]