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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24668853, member: 26430&quot;]Great pages on the Constantius II reverse types. My favorites, and the ones I&#039;ve devoted most energy to acquiring, are the FEL TEMP REPARATIO&#039;s -- especially the Fallen Horsemen. (I still need the one-captive and horseman spearing enemy types.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve got dozens of Fallen Horsemen, and am close to a &quot;mint set,&quot; so I&#039;ll show a few favorites, though I should re-shoot a few photos or am showing seller photos. (I still need Trier.)</p><p><br /></p><p>One must be dedicated to FEL TEMP&#039;s to appreciate why I found this coin desirable:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1573108[/ATTACH]</p><p>(For those who are wondering, yes, confirmed by die matches, it&#039;s a true AMB, not ANB, which can be deceptive.)</p><p><br /></p><p>A common type, but I like this one because it&#039;s enormous (27mm and 7.7g) and has a great portrait. In Kent&#039;s weight distribution for &quot;Large AE2s&quot; in RIC VIII, there was only 1 (or maybe 2) of this weight or more out of 400 in museum collections. ACSearch data show it&#039;s even less common in commerce. (Doug Smith has an enormous 9.5g specimen, but there are only a couple others recorded over 7.7g.) I confess to even having nicknamed it (&quot;The Gran Constantinople&quot;).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1573110[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m also partial to the weird looking ones from French mints.</p><p><br /></p><p>Decorated shields from Arles, ex Adrian Lang Collection (notice also the circle on the horses rump -- reminds me of Celtic &quot;hidden faces&quot; -- and that Constantius has eyelashes!):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1573111[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Lugdunum/Lyons (horse has a palm branch for a tail; Constantius is made of crescents):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1573115[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Aquileia, N. Italian mint with a vaguely Gallic style:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1573116[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a couple other Constantius II&#039;s ex-collections of notable American numismatists.</p><p><br /></p><p>GLORIA EXERCITVS from the Ken Bressett Collection, previously from what he called the &quot;Lincoln Higgie Hoard (Turkey, 1967)&quot;:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1573117[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And another FEL TEMP, with two captives, ex Elvira Clain-Stefanelli Collection (her ticket seems to show it was acq. after Vladimir&#039;s death):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1573118[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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