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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 3490897, member: 80804&quot;]Coins from the Trier mint tend to have significant stylistic differences from the more often seen (in these days) eastern and Balkan mint products. It looks legit to me although we don&#039;t have a diameter or weight by which to compare it to the standard issue of the time.</p><p>In general, this particular era - 330-337 - seems not to have been subject to the same pressures that had driven the mass copying of the VLPP centenionales in the 320&#039;s or the mass copying of FEL TEMP fallen horseman half- or reduced majorinae in the 350&#039;s.</p><p>As for &quot;Limes&quot; - most of the area which in the early-mid 3rd century had produced the mass of cast, plated denarii erroneously referred to as &quot;Limes&quot; (the actual Limes Falsa types were generally undersized/underweight copies of the Æ coins of an earlier era) had by this time been incorporated into the Roman Empire proper. Also, the paucity of circulating silver made creating silvered copies sort of silly since all the circulating currency was, and had been for quite a while, silvered billon - there wasn&#039;t much profit-related reason to copy those official coins by casting copies and silvering them and little of the civil unrest which had caused widespread emergency copying to sustain business before and after that era.</p><p>Sure, unofficial copies of Constantine&#039;s enormous emission of centenionales (Gloria Ex, Urbs Roma &amp; Constantinopolis types) do exist - particularly copies of the later, smaller centenionales produced by the sons of Constantine in the same or similar patterns as the original, full-sized type of official issue, but they&#039;re seen a good bit less commonly. The OP&#039;s coin dates to the 335-7 era as the change from two to a single standard between the soldiers marked a system-wide reduction in weight for the three most common types of centenionalis, from an average of 2.5g at which the series began in 330, to an average of 1.7g ca. 335-6.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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