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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 6985549, member: 84905&quot;]Next up is the GLORIA EXERCITVS follis again.</p><p><br /></p><p>To celebrate a great victory there had to be a &quot;glory to the army&quot; type. The figure on the reverse is usually describes as &quot;a soldier&quot;. I think this is wrong. I think the figure is Constantine himself. The figure is wearing a lorica musculata, i.e. a type of armour that was probably no longer in use in the early 4th century and in any case one that is associated with the highest ranks and of course the emperor himself.</p><p><br /></p><p>The emperor is holding the lance upside down and he is turning his head away from the lance. This maybe insignificant, but the gesture and the position of the lance may be understood as a promise of peace to a population that was tired of civil war.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1273814[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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