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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;randygeki, post: 2007455, member: 13719&quot;]It&#039;s nice to find a rare coins that looks nice as well like yours.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]360839[/ATTACH] </p><p>Constans AE3. 335 AD. FL IVL CONSTANS NOB C, laureate, cuirassed bust right / GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS, two soldiers standing facing one another, each holding reversed spear and shield set on ground, two standards between them, SMANE in ex.</p><p>RIC VII Antioch 89 (SMANΕ), R5 in RIC</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]360840[/ATTACH] </p><p>Tranquillina, Augusta 241-244 A.D., Singara, Mesopotamia</p><p>Bronze AE 26, S 3867, BMC 14, Singara mint, 180°, 241 - 244 A.D.; obverse CAB TPANKVΛΛINA CEB, diademed and draped bust right; reverse CVP CEΠ KOΛ CINΓAPA, veiled and turreted bust of Tyche right, centaur Sagittarius above, discharging bow;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]360841[/ATTACH] </p><p>Vespasian, first issue of 71 with full name VESPASIANVS:</p><p>IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG P M T P P P COS III, bust laureate r. resting on globe and with aegis on shoulder </p><p><br /></p><p>FIDES EXERCITVVM, S C in ex. , clasped hands before legionary eagle on prow.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The obverse die is A23 in Colin Kraay&#039;s unpublished Oxford dissertation, the rev. die P75. Kraay didn&#039;t know this die combination, but it is recorded by RIC 70 from a single specimen in the Termopolio Hoard from Pompeii, published in 1997.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are rare types: only one other obv. die of the issue shows this combination of aegis and globe for the bust, and this is the only rev. die of the FIDES EXERCITVVM type used in the issue, though a second such die was used later in the year with Vespasian&#039;s name abbreviated VESPASIAN (no -VS).&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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