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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 7412211, member: 87809&quot;]Your Solidus is awesome [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER], especially the reverse is really superb.</p><p><br /></p><p>Recently I got my first and only Solidus, a Leo I the Thracian, like the one from Severus Alexander. I think I have shown it before, not sure. </p><p><br /></p><p>The mint masters seem to have reused the same reverse for different emperors - the same angel-victory is on the [USER=44210]@ValiantKnight[/USER] Marcian - guess they had more pressing issues than to struck a new reverse<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>It was through Leo I efforts that the powerful German military faction&#039;s influence was destroyed at a time when the Eastern Roman army was made up almost entirely of Germans.</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC X divides this type into two phases. In the earlier phase (457 - 468) the letter G has an angular form and the spear usually points between the second P and E of PERPET. In the later phase (468 - 473) the G&#039;s are rounded and the spear usually points between the E and T.</p><p><br /></p><p>20 x 20 mm, 4.459 g, 5h</p><p>Constantinople, mint mark Γ (3rd officina), 462- 466 AD (early phase)</p><p>RIC X 605; Depeyrot 93/1; DOCLR (Grierson-Mays) 525; Hunter V 6; Tolstoi 8;</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: D(ominus)N(oster) LEO PERPET(uus) AVG(ustus), Pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear over shoulder and shield with horseman motif</p><p>Rev.: VICTORI - A AVGGG Γ (Victory of the three Augusts), Victory standing left, holding long jeweled cross; star to right; in ex. CONOB</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t know who were the three Augusti&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> nor do I see a horseman motif on the obverse<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1288396[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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