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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3240367, member: 19463&quot;]The Constantine II is interesting to me in that it is an issue where each of the participating rulers got a separate reverse type.&nbsp; It is only R2 but there might be more a demand for it than&nbsp; coins that were issued by everyone.&nbsp; The coin I would like from this issue (RIC vol VII page 502) is the Licinius II.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The Phocas is not a hard ID but the coin was overstruck on an earlier coin.&nbsp; IDing it will be harder.&nbsp; Can you see a large face under the reverse tilted a bit to the left?&nbsp; The most clear part is the cross on top of the crown.&nbsp; That cross rules one one possible ruler and makes another more likely but I have not seen other ID points on the coin that allow ID of the undertype at my amateur level of Byzantine study.&nbsp; Most of these coins are overstruck but it is better when ou can tell what is underneath.&nbsp; My example below is much like yours but if you rotate the reverse a quarter turn to the left, you can see a trefoil crown ornament a used by Maurice Tiberius and some of the legends of the undertype.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]848068[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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