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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2705416, member: 57495&quot;]Thanks for posting those... very interesting!&nbsp; One of my favorite coins with a river-god reverse dates to well after the last provincial coins were struck.&nbsp; On this occasion, the anachronistic use of the pagan motif served the political purpose of Constantine, to advertise the fact that he had granted his nephew Hanniballianus the title <i>Rex Regum et Ponticarum Gentium </i>(King of Kings and of the Pontic Peoples), and essentially giving Shapur II of Persia the numismatic equivalent of a slap in the face.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]609662[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>HANNIBALLIANUS, as Rex Regum</b></p><p>AE4. 1.48g, 16mm. Constantinople mint, AD 336-337. RIC VII 147; LRBC 1034, Cohen 2. O: FL HANNIBALLIANO REGI, bare-headed, draped, cuirassed bust right.&nbsp; R: SE-CVRITAS PVBLICA, Euphrates seated right on ground, holding sceptre, overturned urn at his side, from which waters flow, reed in background; CONSS in exergue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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