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Message:: [QUOTE="seth77, post: 8284020, member: 56653"]Trier is almost as difficult for Constantius II as Amiens. This is what I think it's a short flan RIC 350, unfortunately mintmark off flan: [ATTACH=full]1463347[/ATTACH] It comes from Northamptonshire and was likely one of the first strikes after Constantius II took actual control of Trier in September 353. It also should have been a smaller AE2 at around 20-21mm but instead, the short flan of 17mm shows it as an AE3/4, unfit for the standard of this fourth series. Perhaps the mint needed more time to accommodate the denominations of Constantius II after having minted either small AE3 denominations for Magnentius and Decentius in 352-353, a few different large denominations for Magnentius and Decentius in the first half of 353 and then a few large to medium denominations (AE1-AE2/3) during the "Revolt of Poemenius" episode in August-September 353. The coin is too heavy (4.08g instead of cca. 2.70-2.50g) and the obverse A mark does not fit with a fifth series small module AE3/4 of the period between the end of 353 and 356, but it does show  the markings that were carried over from the previous coinages for Magnentius and Decentius. The style of the portrait and particularly the nose is also striking Trier.[/QUOTE]