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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pishpash, post: 2163112, member: 71514&quot;]I didn&#039;t know that Vetriano did that until I read it on the forum recently.&nbsp; For a long time I was totally unimpressed by the Constantine family.&nbsp; Horsemen and soldiers with standards did nothing for me and I had hundreds of the darn things.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since being on this forum I have gained an appreciation of some reverses that I previously found &quot;boring&quot;.&nbsp; I have recently picked up a few Centenionales which show more detail on the reverse than I am used to seeing.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I saw this coin and the detail just blew me away.&nbsp; I got it for £8 which I thought very reasonable.&nbsp; A similar coin (better than mine) is on wildwinds and sold for over £170 in 2005.&nbsp; (So knock of £160 for the chunks missing out of my coin, I reckon I am still ahead.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Sellers pic</p><p>Siscia</p><p>RIC VIII 284 </p><p>Constantius II (AD 337-361). Billon</p><p>centenionalis (4.7 gm 22mm). Struck by Vetranio, </p><p>AD350. </p><p>D N CONSTANTIVS P F AVG, </p><p>bust right, wearing pearl diadem, between A and star </p><p>CONCORDIA MILITVM, </p><p>emperor standing left, holding two standards inscribed Chi-Rho,</p><p>star above his head, A in left field, </p><p>.ASIS. in exergue.</p><p>RIC 284, officina A (= 1).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]416725[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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