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Message:: [QUOTE="thejewk, post: 4359793, member: 100136"][USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER] the portrait styles of the unmarked unreduced London issues are all over the shop in style. The Cloke and Toone book and the people who've written on the issue have tried to break them down somewhat into periods based on style, but the reality is far more fluid.  In some issues you can identify a portrait style which looks more like the portraits of Allectus, indicating retained mint personnel when Britannia was retaken. Others, like yours, have a style much more similar to the continental mints, probably indicating that Constantius brought mint staff along with him to train the existing staff and help pump out the necessary coinage to pay the troops.  Unless I am mistaken I think our two coins do actually share the same LMCC reference number.  [USER=97383]@Al Kowsky[/USER] thanks, I think it's an excellent and expressive portrait, but it also shows the London propensity from the coinage of Carausius and Allectus for a rather absurd neck and bust.  I definitely want to get an example with a better proportioned 'large bust' to complement my coin like yours.[/QUOTE]