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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1819169, member: 42773&quot;]Thanks for all the replies, friends, much appreciated. Today’s offering is very common, but it has a nice strike with very smooth surfaces and a glossy dark-green patina - just a very nice coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Constantius II</p><p>AE Follis, 16mm. 2.25g, 12h; Siscia mint, 330-333</p><p><i>Obv</i>.: FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C; laureate,‭ ‬draped,‭ ‬and cuirassed bust right</p><p><i>Rev</i>.: GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS; Two soldiers standing, facing one another, spear in outer hand, inner hand on shield resting on ground; between them two standards</p><p>Reference: RIC VII Siscia 219 (p. 453)</p><p><br /></p><p>My understanding of these issues is that two standards on the reverse indicated a higher denomination than one standard. These were some of the last tiny bronzes minted before the reforms of 348 that established the FEL TEMP REPARATIO series of centenionali as the smallest Roman denomination.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s13.postimg.org/q1nw4i1yv/gloriaex700.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>This two-standard coin, however, is only nominally larger than one of my one-standard coins of the same period, by 1mm and a quarter of a gram. Obviously the size of the coins didn’t much matter to differentiate the denominations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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