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Message:: [QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 2851608, member: 14873"] The initial folles c. 297, again issued in the names of Diocletian & Maximian Herculius as Augustus and Constantius & Galerius Maximian as Caesar, closely followed the design, size and weight of the unknown Continental Mint "Invasion" coinage except they now bore a LON mint mark in the reverse exergue. RIC Volume VI, Londinium, Group I, (i), folles, No. 1-5, c. 297, 11.0-9.5 gm, 28/26 mm. Obverses and Reverses in the style of the unknown Continental Mint invasion coinage. Laureate head, right, with bare neck truncation. NOTE: Class I category descriptor is found in RIC VI, Lugdunum, Group I (page 243). Exemplar coin No.1a - Diocletian: <img src="http://jp29.org/lon1ao1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://jp29.org/lon1ar1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />IMP C DIOCLETIANVS PF AVG .................... GENIO POPV -- LI ROMANILON in exergue 9.1 gm.As depicted in RIC Volume VI, Plate 1.Subsequent coinage produced at the London Mint was unmarked (i.e. no LON mint mark in the reverse exergue) until the issue of reduced size/weight folles after the death of Constantius in 306........................................ Intermediate Group folles (Bastien) c. 297 that often feature Lugdunum style laureate heads and London style lettering. Sometimes with laureate busts in fine style with elaborate consular cuirasses (Stewartby). Exemplar coin: Galerius Maximian as Caesar Intermediate Group (Bastien: a) - laureate truncated bare bust with long ribbon tie lying on neck -- London style lettering. <img src="http://jp29.org/lonint1o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://jp29.org/lonint1r.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />C VAL MAXIMIANVS NOB C ........................... GENIO POPV -- LI ROMANI 10.1 gm.[/QUOTE]

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