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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 4579398, member: 14873&quot;]<font face="Times New Roman">Father and son team - Constantius I and Constantine</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">RIC VI, Londinium, No. 47, Constantius, Augustus of the West:</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">CT (Cloke &amp; Toone), No. 4.02.003, 1 May 305 - 26 July 306, Rarity: R</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">[ATTACH=full]1133973[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1133974[/ATTACH]</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">IMP CONSTANTIVS PIVS FEL AVG ....................... GENIO POPV -- LI ROMANI</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Laureate and cuirassed bust facing right</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Earliest obverse legend style.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">9.9 gm</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Like Septimius Severus before him, Constantius, accompanied by his son Constantine, in AD 306 undertook a campaign to subjugate the war-like tribes of northern Britain. He became ill during the campaign and, like Septimius before him, died at Eboracum (York).</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">RIC VI, Londinium, No. 89b, Constantine, Caesar of the West:</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">CT (Cloke &amp; Toone), No. 5.03.004, c. November - December AD 307, Rarity: R</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1134071[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1134072[/ATTACH]</p><p><font face="Times New Roman">FL VAL CONSTANTINIVS NOB C ........................... GENIO - POP ROM</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">PLN in reverse exergue</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Invested with Imperium by his father, Constantius, on his deathbed.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Draped laureate bust facing right</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Genius with head towered and loins draped</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Issued shortly after the death of Constantius following recognition as Caesar by Galerius</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">9.3 gm.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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