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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4953066, member: 110350"][USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER], I have only one Constantinopolis, but it's also from the Siscia Mint, 2nd Officina:</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantine I, Billon reduced Centenionalis, Siscia Mint 334-335 AD. Obv. Bust of Constantinopolis left, wearing laureate helmet and imperial robes, & holding scepter over left shoulder, CONSTAN-TINOPOLIS / Rev. Winged Victory standing left, right foot set on ship’s prow, holding transverse scepter in right hand and resting left hand on shield; • BSIS • [Siscia, Second officina] in exergue. RIC VII 241 (p. 456), Sear RCV IV 16469. 18 mm., 2.5 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1190593[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It's similar to yours, but not the same dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Question: my characterization of this coin as a reduced centenionalis comes from Sear. You call it just a centenionalis. Others posting this type in this thread call it a follis or half-follis. I understand that we don't really know what these coins were called at the time they were issued and circulated, but am I correct that there is no generally-accepted term by which numismatists refer to it now? Even in this thread, the names for it are all over the place.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4953066, member: 110350"][USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER], I have only one Constantinopolis, but it's also from the Siscia Mint, 2nd Officina: Constantine I, Billon reduced Centenionalis, Siscia Mint 334-335 AD. Obv. Bust of Constantinopolis left, wearing laureate helmet and imperial robes, & holding scepter over left shoulder, CONSTAN-TINOPOLIS / Rev. Winged Victory standing left, right foot set on ship’s prow, holding transverse scepter in right hand and resting left hand on shield; • BSIS • [Siscia, Second officina] in exergue. RIC VII 241 (p. 456), Sear RCV IV 16469. 18 mm., 2.5 g. [ATTACH=full]1190593[/ATTACH] It's similar to yours, but not the same dies. Question: my characterization of this coin as a reduced centenionalis comes from Sear. You call it just a centenionalis. Others posting this type in this thread call it a follis or half-follis. I understand that we don't really know what these coins were called at the time they were issued and circulated, but am I correct that there is no generally-accepted term by which numismatists refer to it now? Even in this thread, the names for it are all over the place.[/QUOTE]
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