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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 2788390, member: 80804&quot;]Since it&#039;s Crispus, it can be no later than 326. Without digging around in some books, it&#039;s hard to be more precise than that - particularly since we can&#039;t read the (exergual) mint mark on your piece (although the &quot;F - T&quot; in the fields makes it look like a Western mint) and the minting years for a type might vary a little from mint to mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Okay, I had to check - with F - T in the field it&#039;s from the mint of Trier and dates to 317/18; Cf. RIC VII p. 177, 175-8 &amp; 182</p><p>That would put it right at the end of the era of the follis. In 318 Constantine introduced a new silvered billon coin, similar in size to the follis, but a bit more substantial. Also the new centenionales introduced in 318 tended to have civic or military reverses, shunning the former tradition of pagan deities, as behooved the first emperor to legalize Christianity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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