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Message:: [QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 4001161, member: 96898"]Nice to see so many LRBs from Trier! What I like about the mint is that the high quality of portraiture seems astonishingly consistent. Even the most unspectacular and crappiest types often show a comparably high level of artistic skill: [ATTACH=full]1053379[/ATTACH]Constans, Roman Empire, AE3, 347–348 AD, Trier mint. Obv: CONSTANS P F AVG; bust of Constans, rosette-diademed, draped, cuirassed, r. Rev: VICTORIAE DD AVGGQ NN; two Victories, winged, draped, standing front, facing each other, each holding wreath in r. hand and palm in l. hand; between them, star; in exergue, TRS. 15.5mm, 1.38g. Ref: RIC VIII Treveri 188. Ex Warren Esty. Compare that to, for example, Siscia. The difference is immediately visible:[ATTACH=full]1053380[/ATTACH] Constans, Roman Empire, AE3/4, 347–348 AD, Siscia mint. Obv: CONSTANS P F AVG; bust of Constans, rosette-diademed, draped, cuirassed, r. Rev: VICTORIAE DD AVGGQ NN; two Victories, winged, draped, standing front, facing each other, each holding wreath in r. hand and palm in l. hand; in exergue, •ΓSIS•. 17mm, 1.35g. Ref: RIC VIII Siscia 185.[/QUOTE]