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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 7476310, member: 14873&quot;]<i>Note: Several years ago Curtis Clay pointed out to me that I had made an error in listing the location of this coin as the Louvre in a posting on another Forum - his knowledge and skill at spotting errors is amazing.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>This is a pictorial example (the reverse of which is my CT avatar) of a bronze copy I owned of the famous ten aurei multiple (RIC VOLUME VI, TREVERI, No. 34) coin/medallion, the original of which presently resides in the museum at Arras and that commemorates the restoration of secessionist Britain to the Roman Empire by Constantius in 296. The reverse depicts the personification of Londinium (LON) kneeling and supplicating to Constantius (on horseback) outside of the City Fortification while a galley with Roman soldiers waits on the river Thames. The inscription REDDITOR LVCIS AETERNAE proclaims Constantius as the restorer of the eternal light (of Rome).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/b6ed0cd9-8b99-4090-b98b-8a71cfc285db-jpeg.1154096/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Obverse inscription: FL VAL CONSTANTIVS NOBIL CAES</p><p>Reverse inscription: REDDITOR LVCIS AETERNAE</p><p>LON (lower right) - PTR (exergue)</p><p><br /></p><p>Bastien records the original (unique?) as No. 218 in his book on the Arras Hoard and mentions that galvano copies were made and sold by the Paris coin dealer Bourgey. At a weight of 23.0 grams I think the copy depicted here was cast in bronze from one of those galvano copies. There appears to be numerous other copies in circulation in a variety of metals - brass/bronze, silver, gilded copper, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Note: Constantius was actually Caesar of the west when this medallion was minted, but was elevated to Augustus of the West upon the Abdication of Diocletian and Maximian Herculius on 1 May 305.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>James[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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