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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2214492, member: 42773&quot;]Here&#039;s a wonderfully wrong hybrid, masquerading as a common coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]433062[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Looks like an ordinary VOTA type of Constantine II, right? Except for the fact that the princes Constantine II and Crispus always got a reverse legend referring to them, ie, CAESARVM NOSTRORVM and variations thereof. Also, during the run of this issue, only VOT X was commemorated on their coins. The reverse of this coin actually belongs to Constantine I, who received the legend DN CONSTANTINI MAX AVG and VOT XX.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is in fact a mule of the reverse of RIC VII Trier 454 (Constantine I) and obverse 459 (Constantine II PROVIDENTIA CAESS Campgate). Both types were issued in AD 324. Did the striker of this coin mix up his dies? Or was this an intentional effort at recycling an older reverse die?</p><p><br /></p><p>To compound matters, the engraver (or engravers) of the dies ran out of room and shortened both inscriptions to make them irregular. The B is missing on the obverse: CONSTANTINVS IVN NO(B) C, and AVG on the reverse is abbreviated simply as A. This sort of thing isn&#039;t particularly uncommon, but it adds a layer of fluffed icing to an already erroneous cake.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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