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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 2852072, member: 14873&quot;]<b><font face="Times New Roman">The London Mint coin engravers soon abandoned the early &quot;small head on a tall neck&quot;&nbsp; portraiture style and returned to more traditional depictions:</font></b></p><p><b><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></b></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>RIC Volume VI, Londinium, Group I, (ii), folles, Class II, (b), No. 17-22, c. 300 onward, 10.8-9.0 gm, 27/26 mm</b>. Laureate bust, right, cuirassed, or cuirassed and draped - shorter necks and proportional heads.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><b><font face="Times New Roman">Exemplar coin No. 17 - Maximian Herculius:</font></b></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><img src="http://jp29.org/lon17o1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://jp29.org/lon17r1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>IMP C MAXIMIANVS P F AVG</b> .............................. <b>GENIO POPV -- LI ROMANI</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">8.5 gm.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><b><font face="Times New Roman">Exemplar coin No. 20 - Constantius as Caesar:</font></b></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><img src="http://jp29.org/lon20o1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://jp29.org/lon20r1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>FL VAL CONSTANTIVS NOB C</b> .............................. <b>GENIO POPV -- LI ROMANI</b></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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