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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1842837, member: 42773&quot;]This coin was in a dealer&#039;s clearance offerings for half-price, and I believe it was worth the small outlay. The reverse presents Sol in the scarce variety of standing right, facing left, with spread chalmys. If you wanted to collect a high-grade example of this variety, you would head over to the Trier mint where you would shell out a pretty penny, but easily come away with a &quot;museum quality&quot; coin - whatever that means. (I think the dealers that use that term have likely never darkened the doors of a museum.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The variety is scarce to begin with - Sol is found far more often standing left. I believe the type is even scarcer coming out of Lugdunum. RIC lists one coin with these particular mint marks, referenced to the Oxford Collection, with the obverse legend CONSTANTINVS AVG as R4. This legend-variant may of course be listed elsewhere, but RIC is all I&#039;ve got.</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantine I</p><p>AE Follis, 18mm, 2.8g; Lugdunum mint: 316</p><p>Obv.: IMP CONSTANTINVS AVG; laureate, cuirassed bust right.</p><p>Rev.: SOLI INVIC-TO COMITI; Sol standing right, looking left, chalmys spread, holding globe / A / S // PLG</p><p>Reference: RIC VII, Lyon 62 (legend variant)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s27.postimg.org/notx69ggj/soli.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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