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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1651662, member: 19463&quot;]RIC dates this coin to 326 AD.&nbsp; I believe I understand the idea here but could be wrong.&nbsp; The mintmark is SMHE with a dot following but no dot before.&nbsp; The same coin exists with no dots and with a dot before and after.&nbsp; The no dot series includes coins for Constantine I, Constantine II, Constantius II, Helena, Fausta and Crispus.&nbsp; The dot following series drops coins for Crispus who was killed in 326 but retains Fausta who died soon after but still in 326.&nbsp; The dot before and after versions do not come in Fausta so they were made after she died.&nbsp; This allows the coin we have here to be dated to the period after Crispus was killed and before Fausta joined him.&nbsp;&nbsp; Not all coins have such neatly packaged dating events since not every year saw the killing of two family members.&nbsp; Oddly, RIC lists the only common coin one dot as the one for Constantius II but he has no double dot coins.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; I have no idea.</p><p><br /></p><p>As Warren pointed out, the three boys all became Augusti in 337.&nbsp; A resource like Wildwinds will always have errors from the dealers that listed the lots.&nbsp; In many cases I suspect that some dealer had another coin of the same ruler which was dated to 347-355 (probably a full size Fel Temp) and blindly copied those numbers to this one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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