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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2161083, member: 42773&quot;]Doug Smith has a great page on the Falling Horseman types, analyzing the styles from various mints. Click <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fh.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fh.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Your coin was minted by Constantius Gallus, who never achieved the rank of Augustus (another interesting read). Hence, he is bare-headed - only the Augusti are portrayed with diadems on their heads.</p><p><br /></p><p>The style of the bust on your coin suggests a barbarous issue, that is, a contemporary imitative coin. The reverse also seems to be a bit off from the High Roman style. Either that or the engraver was having a bad day, or maybe he didn&#039;t care much for Constans (it was a common theme) and intentionally made him somewhat ugly. At any rate, a very interesting example.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two of mine for comparison, the first an official issue, the second barbarous.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]416175[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]416176[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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