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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 5198762, member: 82549&quot;]I have a fathead Licinius I:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1214666[/ATTACH] </p><p>Bronze Nummus</p><p>Siscia mint, A.D. 313-314</p><p>Obv: IMP LIC LICINIVS P F AVG</p><p>Rev: IOVI CONS-ERVATORI - Jupiter, standing, facing left, chlamys hanging from shoulder, leaning on scepter and holding Vicotry with wreath on globe; eagle with wreath at feet.</p><p>SIS in exergue; Γ in right field</p><p>RIC 8</p><p>20mm, 3.1g.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think part of the reason for the fatheads is that celators started carving heads rather than busts, and they wanted to fill the obverse. On coins of the same period that depict a bust on the obverse, the heads are less bizarre because there is more to work with, as on this coin of Diocletian:</p><p><img src="http://feltemp.com/Images/Restoration/Diocletian.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Bronze Nummus</p><p>Treir mint, A.D. 301-305</p><p>Obv: IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG</p><p>Rev: GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI - Genius, modius on head, naked but for chlamys hanging from shoulder, holding patera and cornucopiae</p><p>PTR in exergue; S in left field, F in right</p><p>RIC 582a</p><p>26mm, 7.7g.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting, though, that at the same time many of the mints were cranking out fathead coins, Antioch was minting coins with a completely different style portrait, the tiny eye. I&#039;ve seen many examples of coins from Antioch with this strange head:</p><p><img src="http://feltemp.com/Images/Restoration/MaximinusII.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><u><b>Maximinus II (&quot;Daia&quot;)</b></u></p><p><i>Caesar, A.D. 305-309</i></p><p><i>Filius Augustorum, A.D. 309-310</i></p><p><i>Augustus, A.D. 310-313</i></p><p>Bronze Nummus</p><p>Antioch mint, A.D. 312</p><p>Obv: IMP C GAL VAL MAXIMINVS P F AVG</p><p>Rev: GENIO AVGVSTI - Genius, modius on head, naked but for chlamys hanging from shoulder, holding head of Sol and cornucopiae</p><p>ANT in exergue; ✳ in left field, S in right</p><p>RIC 164b</p><p>22mm, 4.7g.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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