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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2787841, member: 19463"]Coins with short flan mintmark loss can often be IDed by finding matching pediments. I agree with your PT reading. </p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite 'Maxentius' temple issue is this follis he issued during the short time he was trying to get along with a new kid on the scene, Constantine later to be Greater. Had he issued the coin with AVG in place of CAES, history might have been spared the whole Milvian Bridge affair and been changed in so many ways we can only try to imagine. In politics, you pick your friends and you pick your enemies. As it turned out, Constantine made a bad enemy. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]646675[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2787841, member: 19463"]Coins with short flan mintmark loss can often be IDed by finding matching pediments. I agree with your PT reading. My favorite 'Maxentius' temple issue is this follis he issued during the short time he was trying to get along with a new kid on the scene, Constantine later to be Greater. Had he issued the coin with AVG in place of CAES, history might have been spared the whole Milvian Bridge affair and been changed in so many ways we can only try to imagine. In politics, you pick your friends and you pick your enemies. As it turned out, Constantine made a bad enemy. [ATTACH=full]646675[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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