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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 7552393, member: 44316"]Yes. There was a flurry of "DN" titles on coin obverses from 317 when the three Caesars (Licinius II, Crispus, and Constantine II) were promoted. It was sometimes expanded to "DOMINORVM NOSTRORVM" on the reverses. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1302883[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">Crispus, Caesar 317-326. Struck as Caesar 320-321.</font></p><p><font size="3">20 mm. </font></p><p><font size="3">Reverse legend: <b>DOMINORVM • NOSTRORVM</b> • CAESS</font></p><p><font size="3">VOT</font></p><p><font size="3"> V in wreath</font></p><p><font size="3">A translation is something like "Vows for 5 years of our lords the Caesars". </font></p><p><font size="4">ST below</font></p><p><font size="4"><i>RIC</i> Ticinum 150 "320-321"</font></p><p><br /></p><p>Then about 324 when Licinius was defeated, DN becomes much less frequently used on obverses. But, it is on some pre-reform coins like this one:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1302881[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Constans, as Augustus (337-350), struck 347-8 [RIC] or 346 [Burgess, NC 1988, p. 83].</p><p><b>DN</b> CONSTANS PF AVG</p><p>14 mm. RIC Antioch 116.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are some "GLORIA EXERCITVS" coins with "DN" in the obverse title, but they are uncommon and I don't have one to show. Does anyone?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 7552393, member: 44316"]Yes. There was a flurry of "DN" titles on coin obverses from 317 when the three Caesars (Licinius II, Crispus, and Constantine II) were promoted. It was sometimes expanded to "DOMINORVM NOSTRORVM" on the reverses. [ATTACH=full]1302883[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]Crispus, Caesar 317-326. Struck as Caesar 320-321. 20 mm. Reverse legend: [B]DOMINORVM • NOSTRORVM[/B] • CAESS VOT V in wreath A translation is something like "Vows for 5 years of our lords the Caesars". [/SIZE] [SIZE=4]ST below [I]RIC[/I] Ticinum 150 "320-321"[/SIZE] Then about 324 when Licinius was defeated, DN becomes much less frequently used on obverses. But, it is on some pre-reform coins like this one: [ATTACH=full]1302881[/ATTACH] Constans, as Augustus (337-350), struck 347-8 [RIC] or 346 [Burgess, NC 1988, p. 83]. [B]DN[/B] CONSTANS PF AVG 14 mm. RIC Antioch 116. There are some "GLORIA EXERCITVS" coins with "DN" in the obverse title, but they are uncommon and I don't have one to show. Does anyone?[/QUOTE]
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