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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2168512, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;ll tack on a matching London Diocletian which I consider RIC 6a page 124.&nbsp; I don&#039;t claim expertise in these.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]418340[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It gets worse.&nbsp; I believe the one below is RIC 17a page 243 from Lugdunum.&nbsp; Unfortunately the strike is weak in exergue making it possible there were lost letters but I&#039;m reading this as the Lugdunum issue without mintmark by style.&nbsp; Corrections welcomed.&nbsp; It would have been nice if the mints had got together and decided who got to use &#039;no mintmark&#039; as their mintmark but we don&#039;t always get cooperation out of these mintmasters long dead.&nbsp; I bought this from Victor Failmezger before his book came out but it did not make the cut for the book.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]418339[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with seth77 that MikeyZee&#039;s Augustus is a great coin and that Augustus issues are harder to find.&nbsp; Mine is from Ticinum and is a Failmezger plate coin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]418343[/ATTACH]</p><p>There are also ugustus fractions like this one from Siscia.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]418341[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>...and this posthumous fraction (half follis?) from Rome.&nbsp; This was part of the later series honoring all of Constantine&#039;s favored relatives a decade later than the rest of the coins shown here.&nbsp; It is RIC 111 page 311 but that page is in RIC volume VII rather than VI as are the others quoted here.&nbsp; It reads DIVO CONSTANTIO PIO PRINC / MEMORIAE AETERNAE RS</p><p>[ATTACH=full]418342[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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