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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collecting Nut, post: 8210790, member: 74863&quot;]Here are two coins that show how they can look so much alike but yet, be so different. I am just amazed at this and I discovered that I have two more Romulus and Remus with the she-wolf. They are from two different mints and that makes it even more exciting. </p><p><br /></p><p>Both coins are from the Time of Constantine.</p><p><br /></p><p>First is the coin from the Siscia Mint, a rare variety in RIC and rated as R5. Time of Constantine I and Sons. </p><p>AE Follis, 2.3g, 19mm, 6h.</p><p>Siscia Mint, 330-333 AD.</p><p>Obverse: VRBS ROMA, helmeted bust of Roma wearing imperial mantle left.</p><p>Reverse: She-wolf standing left, Romulus and Remus sucking beneath, two stars above, wreath between // RSIS.</p><p>Reference: RIC VII 223, r5, p. 453</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440475[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1440476[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Next is the Trier Mint. Time of Constantine and Sons.</p><p>AE Follis, 2.6g, 17mm, 12h.</p><p>Trier Mint, 330-331 AD.</p><p>Obverse: VRBS ROMA, helmeted bust of Roma wearing imperial mantle left.</p><p>Reverse: She-wolf standing left with Romulus and Remus suckling beneath, two stars above // TRS•</p><p>Reference: RIC VII 522, p.214, r4[ATTACH=full]1440477[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1440478[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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