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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2518467, member: 44316&quot;]Take a look at this and see if you know what is on the other side:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]536632[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, you guessed it.&nbsp; It is a nice Victory advancing left, foot on prow, from the Trier mint, surely with the usual very common CONSTANTINOPOLIS obverse.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Or, maybe not. Here is what is really on the other side:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]536633[/ATTACH]</p><p>Bust <b>right</b> (usually it is left) in helmet with ROMA <b>retrograde</b> and the rest blundered or doublestruck enough to be illegible. It must be a contemporary imitation mixing the usual CONSTANTINOPOLIS reverse with the usual VRBS ROMA obverse retrograde.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, it would be a &quot;hybrid&quot; (the reverse does not belong paired with the obverse) for types but I am posting it for <b>style</b>. The revere Victory looks official and very well-done. The obverse is the wrong type, retrograde, and cartoonish. Remarkably inconsistent!</p><p><br /></p><p>Show us &quot;inconsistent&quot; coins![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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