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Message:: [QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 3000774, member: 14873"] Probably this extract from that web page will serve better: .................. After his restoration of seccessionist Britain to the Empire, Constantius re-opened the London Mint of Carausius/Allectus with just one officina that continued to operate, somewhat sporadically, until its closure in 325. It seems very likely that initially the work force consisted of British die engravers and other workers, formerly employed by the Carausius/Allectus Mints, now supervised and mixed in with Lugdunese mint workers who accompanied the Constantius invasion force. This London Mint continued to produce exclusively reformed folles, first under Constantius and then under Constantine, until its closure in AD 325. Initial re-opened London Mint coinage The coin obverses and reverses of the initial production coin series replicate those of the Constantius Invasion coinage except there is now a LON mint mark in the exergue. RIC Volume VI, Londinium, No. 1a, Diocletian, Augustus of the EastCT (Cloke & Toone), No. 1.01.001, c. AD 296, Rarity: R <img src="http://jp29.org/lon1ao.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://jp29.org/lon1ar.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />IMP C DIOCLETIANVS PF AVG .................... GENIO POPV -- LI ROMANILON in reverse exergue Laureate, truncated, bare neck bust.Laurel wreath long ribbon tie laying on the neck.LON mint mark in the reverse exergue.All LON mint mark coins are designated Rare by CT.As depicted in RIC Volume VI, Plate 1.9.8 gm. RIC Volume VI, Londinium, No. 1b, Maximian Herculius, Augustus of the WestCT (Cloke & Toone), No. 1.01.002, c. AD 296, Rarity: R <img src="http://jp29.org/lon1bo.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://jp29.org/lon1br.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />IMP C MAXIMIANVS PF AVG .................... GENIO POPVLI ROMANILON in reverse exergue Laureate, truncated, bare neck bust.Laurel wreath long ribbon tie laying on the neck.LON mint mark in the reverse exergue.Subsequent coinage after this series produced at the London Mint was unmarked (i.e. no LON mint mark) until the issue of reduced size/weight folles after the death of Constantius in 306.9.6 gm. Intermediate series coin (Bastien), not in RIC, Galerius Maximian, Caesar of the East:CT (Cloke & Toone), No. 1.02.004 (2), c. AD 296, Rarity: R <img src="http://jp29.org/lonint1o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://jp29.org/lonint1r.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />C VAL MAXIMIANVS NOB C ........................... GENIO POPV -- LI ROMANI Laureate with truncated bare neck bust.London style letteringThese intermediate style folles were issued immediately following the LON marked coins.Some had laureate bare neck truncated busts, others had laureate cuirassed busts, some with elaborate consular features.All had the laurel wreath long ribbon tie laying on the neck.All had London style inscriptional lettering and did not bear the LON mint mark.10.1 gm. Subsequent London Mint coinage The coin obverses generally follow an almost standard pattern - right facing laureate, cuirassed busts with short wreath ribbon ties secured behind the neck. The reverses mostly depict what is by now the standard representation of the Genius of the Roman People standing, facing left, head surmounted by a modius, naked except for a chlamys over the left shoulder, holding a patera in the right hand and cradling a cornucopia in the left arm. Both the obverse and reverse inscriptional lettering is somewhat thick and compact with the legends reading clockwise around the periphery of the coin. The reverse legend is almost always GENIO POPVLI ROMANI. There is no mint mark in the exergue.[/QUOTE]

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