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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 8267049, member: 120820&quot;]Here&#039;s another eBay pickup from today. $25 for this one, plus $10 intl. shipping.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1458722[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC VII Thessalonica 129 corrected - bust right.</p><p><br /></p><p>This Thessalonica vota type for Constantius II is neat because it&#039;s the only vota type for him from any mint, issued in 324 AD when he had just been appointed caesar.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are two variants of this, RIC 130 with legend &quot;IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C&quot;, and this much rarer RIC 129 with longer &quot;FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C&quot; legend.</p><p><br /></p><p>An interesting tidbit about RIC 129 is that it&#039;s listed incorrectly in RIC VII, which has it with a left facing bust, R5, only citing the Nagyeteny hoard. We can be sure it&#039;s an error in RIC since while the Nagyeteny hoard report has it <i>listed</i> with a left facing bust, it also has a plate <i>picture</i> of it with right facing bust!</p><p><br /></p><p>Somewhat oddly, while accepting the Nagyeteny hoard report listing at face value without bothering to check the plate, RIC author Bruun relegated a <i>correct</i> description of the type from the Voetter-Gerin catalog (of coins in the Vienna collection) to a footnote, saying that no such coin could be found!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve grown to strongly distrust any RIC listings based on 2nd hand reports.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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