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Message:: [QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 4614119, member: 14873"]Reply Part 6 - “Long necks“ At least some of the Carausian die engravers eventually developed an affection for depicting the portraits of Carausius and Allectus with inordinately long necks: [ATTACH=full]1145313[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1145314[/ATTACH]                       Many present day collectors do not particularly like these depictions but they seemed to have been accepted as stylish variations in their day. The coins produced at the newly re-opened London mint of Constantius that followed the initial issues marked LON were now unmarked folles reminiscent of the Carausius/Allectus issues. They are cataloged in RIC volume VI as Group I, Class II (a & b) folles, small head on tall neck cuirassed portraits, numbers 6a through 16. [ATTACH=full]1142813[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1142814[/ATTACH]Constantius (left), No.14a - Galerius  Maximian (right), No. 15 This is not surprising, for Sutherland points out that Constantius brought some of his Invasion coinage mint workers with him as part of his invasion force and put them to work in his newly re-opened London mint alongside and mixed in with the existing Carausian mint workers. Evidently the Carausian die engravers were tasked with designing the portraits for this Issue of folles and followed their predilection for “long necks”.[/QUOTE]