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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7825659, member: 110350&quot;]I wouldn&#039;t recognize an imperial mantle if it weren&#039;t pointed out to me, but Diocletian supposedly wears one on this abdication follis:</p><p><br /></p><p>Diocletian, billon abdication Follis, 305-307 AD, Trier Mint. Obv. Laureate bust right in imperial mantle (trabea), holding olive branch and mappa, D N DIOCLETIANO BAEATISSIMO SEN AVG / Rev. Providentia standing right, holding [scroll or short scepter?] and drapery with left hand and extending right hand to Quies standing left, holding branch downward with right hand and leaning on scepter with left hand, S - F across fields, PROVIDENTIA DEORVM QVIES AVGG; PTR in exergue. 27x28 mm., 9.6 gm. RIC VI Trier 673a (p. 208), Sear RCV IV 12927.&nbsp; [<i>Die match to example sold by Numismatik Naumann in 2015; see </i><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/image.html?id=2337893" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/image.html?id=2337893" rel="nofollow"><i>https://www.acsearch.info/image.html?id=2337893</i></a>.]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1344752[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As does Constantine II on this coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantine II Caesar (son of Constantine I), Æ reduced Follis. small bust type, Heraclea Mint (5th Officina), 317 AD. Obv. Small laureate half-bust of young Constantine II left, wearing imperial mantle, holding mappa in right hand and globe and scepter in left hand, D N FL CL CONSTANTINVS NOB C / Rev. Campgate with five rows, three turrets, no door, and no star, PROVIDEN-TIAE CAESS; in exergue, mintmark MHTЄ [Epsilon = 5th Officina]. RIC VII 20 (p. 545), Sear RCV V 17140, Cohen 107.&nbsp; 18 mm., 3.31 g. (<i>Purchased from Kirk Davis</i>).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1344753[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And Probus on this one:</p><p><br /></p><p>Probus, 276-282 AD, silvered billon Antoninianus, Cyzicus Mint 280 AD. Obv. Radiate bust left wearing imperial mantle and holding eagle-tipped sceptre, IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG / Rev. Sol standing facing in spread quadriga, with right hand raised, holding globe and whip in left hand, the horses spread, two on l. and two on r., SOLI INVICTO. CM in lower center above XXI Q in exergue (Officina 4 - Quarto). RIC V-2 Cyzicus 911, Sear RCV III 12041 (ill), Cohen 682, Pink [Karl Pink 1949], p. 44, series 3.&nbsp; 23 mm., 4.1 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1344754[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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