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<p>[QUOTE="lrbguy, post: 3101708, member: 88829"]I concur. #81.</p><p><br /></p><p>Martin, Antioch has two laureate bust types (one of which is for Constantine, the other for the sons) and three diademed bust types for the old man. There are also some variants on certain of these not yet listed. Your coin has what Bruun calls the E2 bust, with what he calls a "rosette diadem, head only." The squares in the diadem, between pairs of leaves, correspond to the "rosettes" (go figure). The "head" designation is without draping or armor, just a bare neck. The only use of the "plain" diadem (E1) is for a no-dot field, only attested in RIC for officina delta-epsilon by a single example, corresponding to series 4.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lrbguy, post: 3101708, member: 88829"]I concur. #81. Martin, Antioch has two laureate bust types (one of which is for Constantine, the other for the sons) and three diademed bust types for the old man. There are also some variants on certain of these not yet listed. Your coin has what Bruun calls the E2 bust, with what he calls a "rosette diadem, head only." The squares in the diadem, between pairs of leaves, correspond to the "rosettes" (go figure). The "head" designation is without draping or armor, just a bare neck. The only use of the "plain" diadem (E1) is for a no-dot field, only attested in RIC for officina delta-epsilon by a single example, corresponding to series 4.[/QUOTE]
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