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Message:: [QUOTE="Genio popvli romani, post: 3111693, member: 94940"]Be careful about the scale of the pictures on the plate.Here are the "full issue" plate and the catalog: <img src="https://i37.servimg.com/u/f37/15/86/03/61/plate10.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="https://i37.servimg.com/u/f37/15/86/03/61/catalo10.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> P. Bastien in the part talking about chronology wrote more or less : “ we locate after dotP/SLG, so in 332, the strike of the rare nummi wreathPLG currently known. One example of Constantine II has been recently revealed by the Woodeaton found, two other of Constantius II are owned by the FMCambridge and the Wien MK. The Oxford VRBS ROMA nummus described by P.M. Bruun comes from an unofficial mint, but two other specimens have been described in the Llanbethery and Freston founds inventories. And, two CONSTANTINOPOLIS nummi are in BM and Berlin…. ….Two other specimens have been recorded, first from Bishop’s Wood found, second in Freston but are not pictured. No coin from the second officina has been published excepted a VRBS ROMA nummus from Bishop’s Wood found but the absence of photography do not allow the identification. The existence of some sure examples and others described but not photographed, allows to suppose that a brief whole issue has been emitted…. …The chronology of this issue is obviously doubtful. The legends of the nummi of the Cesars are broken as the previously described GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS issues, while in the starP/SLG issue, they become rare and are mostly replaced by the GLORI-A EXER-CITVS. It is the only thin argument that permits to place the wreathPLG issue between dotP/SLG and starP/SLG issues.”[/QUOTE]

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