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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1232516, member: 19463&quot;]Agree. Licinius suffers from being very common but lacks the added appeal Constantine gets from being Christian.&nbsp; There are so many of the Genius coins from Diocletian through Constantine that a lot of people find them ordinary.&nbsp; Yours is a good example of a very formal, stylized portrait common in that day but Siscia is not my favorite mint either so I guess I&#039;ll just say this is a decent example of a period in coinage that most of us find less than interesting.&nbsp; I once knew one specialist in Licinius (since passed away) but he is, as you say, not very popular.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Recall not that long ago I showed coins from Baltimore that I considered ordinary and two of them were Licinius:</p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t182391/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t182391/">http://www.cointalk.com/t182391/</a></p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t182391/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t182391/"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t182391/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t182391/">H</a>e gets no respect.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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