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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 3192016, member: 83956&quot;]As far as why all the variations on Constantinian coinage, one simple answer might be the fact that he has coins struck for him for over 30 years. He just reigns a long time, and as the sole Augustus for a good bit of it. That translates into a lot of coins. And each mint will have their own artistic take on a design.</p><p><br /></p><p>But why the variations within the same type, even within the same mint, such as for the GLORIA EXERCITUS reverse type? I have no idea. Perhaps such variations serve as control marks, allowing a mint controller to know which officina at which time was producing coins for quality control purposes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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