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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2855872, member: 19463&quot;]In all honesty, many of the problems in IDing these come from failure to read every letter.&nbsp; Constantius lacks an N before -us while Latin for Constantine is ConstantiNus.&nbsp; Many (not all) coins of Constantine II have the letters IVN after ConstantiNus telling you the coin is of &#039;junior&#039;.&nbsp; Yes, there are some that are trickier than others and many beginners insist on buying coins with so much legend missing that they are hard to read.&nbsp; Many of these can be IDed by tricks you learn in lesson two but lesson one is to read the legends all the way to the end.&nbsp; Coins of Constantius I are enough earlier that they stand out having different reverses or larger sizes to separate them from Constantius II.&nbsp; Of the CON people, Constantius Gallus is the only one regularly shown with bare head and his coins also have IVN much of the time.&nbsp; They did not place IVN on coins of a younger man after the death of the elder one so you do not see IVN on coins of Constantius II who was born long after the death of his grandfather Constantius I.&nbsp;&nbsp; Yes, I can see how this might produce a headache until you learn a few rules but that is why we suggest going to shows and handling coins and going online and looking a pictures of coins you are not going to buy.&nbsp; Practice really does help![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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