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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 2677187, member: 82549&quot;]I agree with your observations. The two Victories reverse type seems by far the most common imitation of a Constantine bronze, just as the fallen horseman type is the most common of his sons. Although I have no proof of this, I suspect that there is an important difference between the two imitations, however. The two Victories imitations are for the most part similar in size and texture to the official issues, suggesting that they are probably contemporaneous with the official coins, most of which were minted, more or less, between 318-320. In theory, they could have traded along side official issues at and beyond the frontiers. Many of the fallen horseman imitations that I&#039;ve seen, however, are much smaller than the official ones, similar in size to 5th-century and Vandalic-era bronzes. I can&#039;t see how these could have been confused with or accepted as equivalent to the official bronzes of the mid 4th century. My guess is that they appeared much later. So why was this reverse imitated rather than a 5th-century type, such as a cross reverse of Theodosius II, which more closely matches the imitations in size?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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