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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 3269373, member: 88829&quot;]I have a few siliquae to show, which I hope you will find interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first one I will show is a nice but common VRBS ROMA type for Valens from Trier.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]861985[/ATTACH]</p><p>367-375; Trier officina S (2)</p><p>18mm at 2.14 g</p><p>RIC IX 27b,</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a pretty typical example of size and weight for the late fourth century.</p><p><br /></p><p>By way of contrast, here is an earlier &quot;heavy siliqua&quot; of Constantius II</p><p>[ATTACH=full]861986[/ATTACH]340-351; Nicomedia</p><p>VOTIS XXV</p><p><br /></p><p>As siliquae go this coin is a whopper at 19x21mm and weighing 2.91g.</p><p>When these two coins are viewed side by side the difference is immediately apparent:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]861987[/ATTACH]</p><p>One might suspect that the Valens had been clipped, but the beading on the reverse suggests that the flan has not been appreciably reduced if at all, and the coin is normal weight for a full sized flan.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another example for Constantius II, this time with the anepigraphic &quot;eyes to heaven&quot; obverse.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]861988[/ATTACH] 337-340; Constantinople,&nbsp; officina &lt;gamma&gt; (3)</p><p>This coin also measures 19x21mm, but my scales died before I could get a valid weight.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was something about it that made me wonder if this had once been in the collection of Alphonse Capone.&nbsp; Not sure about that.</p><p>(I was going to show this alongside my avatar coin, but I can&#039;t find it just now.&nbsp; Maybe later.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally I thought I would show you one that doesn&#039;t come down the pike very often.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]861989[/ATTACH]</p><p>This is a siliqua of Vetranio, from Siscia (RIC VIII 267)</p><p>VICTORIA AVGVSTORVM reverse; Victory adv left holding wreath and trophy.</p><p><br /></p><p>This one measures 19x20 mm but weighs 2.29 g.&nbsp; Although it is an age mate to the coins of Constantius II and has a similar flan size, its weight is closer to that of the coin of Valens.&nbsp; It is in fact the more standard module for siliquae of the mid-4th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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