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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8182013, member: 85693&quot;]Nice &quot;Fallen Horseman&quot; you got there, [USER=107431]@Matthew Kruse[/USER] - I too like that desert patina.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I notice your horseman has an interesting hairdo - a topknot perhaps?&nbsp; Recently, I obtained a huge hoard of ancients from generous CTer [USER=95247]@tenbobbit[/USER] - as far as can tell from researching it, this features a &quot;punky&quot; or &quot;straight up&quot; hair style (to me it looks more like a truncated beehive &#039;do?).&nbsp; I was also a bit confused about attribution; with OCRE (which presumably follows RIC) giving two possibilities and Wildwinds noting that these two descriptions are identical.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1430550[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Constantius II&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Æ 16</b></p><p><b>(351-353 / 355-361 A.D.)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Nicomedia Mint</b></p><p>D N CONSTAN-TIVS P F AVG pearl-diademed, draped and&nbsp; cuirassed bust right / FEL TEMP RE-PARATIO, soldier standing left spearing a fallen horseman with hair &quot;straight up&quot; reaching backwards, SMNB in exergue.</p><p>(2.07 grams / 16 mm)</p><p>[USER=95247]@tenbobbit[/USER] Oct. 2021 </p><p><b>Attribution:&nbsp; </b>These are identical in OCRE, but with different dates:</p><p><b>RIC VIII 96: 351-355 A.D.</b></p><p><b>RIC VIII 104: 355-361 A.D.</b></p><p>Wildwinds acknowledges this split attribution.</p><p><b>Var.:</b>&nbsp; horseman has no cap, but &quot;straight up&quot;/&quot;punky&quot; hair (see Wildwinds); none in OCRE wear a cap!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the full Wildwinds note: </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;RIC VIII Nicomedia 96/104</p><p>Note: According to RIC, reference numbers 96 and 104 are identical, both described as &quot;wearing cap&quot;, meant to denote the pointed Phrygian helmet.</p><p>There are two versions known so far for Nicomedia 96/104: One has the horseman wearing a Phrygian helmet, the other is like this one, with punky hair straight up.</p><p>Submitted by Dane, August 2009&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/constantius_II/_nicomedia_RIC_viii_104.txt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/constantius_II/_nicomedia_RIC_viii_104.txt" rel="nofollow">https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/constantius_II/_nicomedia_RIC_viii_104.txt</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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