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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2773042, member: 83956&quot;]Mine is rather like yours, Warren. I like the Fu Manchu mustache Constantine is sporting here. Mine&#039;s still got some decent silvering. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]639905[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>EMPEROR: </b>Constantine I</p><p><b>REIGNED: </b>306-337 A.D.</p><p><b>DATE STRUCK: </b>312-313 A.D.</p><p><b>TYPE: </b>AE silvered follis or nummus</p><p><b>SIZE: </b>21 mm.</p><p><b>WEIGHT: </b>4.62 g.</p><p><b>DIE AXIS: </b>0°</p><p><b>OBVERSE: </b>[FL] VALER CONSTANTINVS PF AVG; laureate head right.</p><p><b>REVERSE: </b>GENIO AVGVSTI; In field: */N/palm branch – A; Genius standing left, holding head of Serapis and cornucopia.</p><p><b>EXERGUE: </b>ALE; Alexandria mint</p><p><b>REFERENCES: </b>RIC VI Alexandria 161</p><p><b>EX: </b>VCOINS: Gert Boersema, Hasselt, Netherlands.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>NOTES:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>“VF, rev. EF with great detail on rev., nearly fully silvered.”&nbsp; “Serapis was created [in Alexandria] by the first Ptolemy to make a bridge between the Egyptian and Hellenic inhabitants. It was this same Ptolemy who made Alexandria the capital of Egypt, so Alexandria and Serapis certainly belong together…Sol and Serapis are clearly meant to be similar in their symbolic meanings. On this coin, the similar headwear of Genius and Serapis is obvious. But although they are identical in their meaning, there is a subtle difference. Genius wears a modius, a basket or sometimes a metal container used as a public corn measure; Serapis wears a kalathos, a basket with a more domestic background. Neither would seem to us to be an obvious choice as headwear.” --Bill Welch[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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