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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24668631, member: 26430&quot;]Great coin... That reverse! What an interesting depiction of the fallen enemy holding the sword. (Usually it seems like he&#039;s trying to get away?) Even well preserved, I&#039;m not used to seeing that level of detail.</p><p><br /></p><p>These always remind me of a brief comment in RIC VIII (p. 240), discussing a similar rev. for Constantius II &amp; Magnentius (but one enemy, GLORIA ROMANORVM). Kent notes that the two Emperors&#039; coins of the same type showed two different styles of enemy. (Enemy wearing pointed cap for Constantius vs. bare-headed for Magnentius.) Did that detail mean something or just the whim of the engravers?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]1573068[/ATTACH](expandable)</p><p><br /></p><p>This just happens to be one theme I find fascinating in Late Roman Bronzes. For the &quot;enemies&quot; reverses (Constantine&#039;s, certain Constantine-Licinius captives, Constantius-Magnentius), I always wonder which ones may have alluded to external enemies, and how many to the various internal conflicts in the Tetrarchic &amp; Constantinian periods. And how many of them can be identified as such.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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