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Message:: [QUOTE="Heliodromus, post: 8086016, member: 120820"]During Constantine's rule there's a progression of bust types coordinated across mints, that's unrelated to the reverse types each mint is issuing. Normally the reverse types are coordinated too, although there are some times such as here at Constantinople that the mints are issuing different types. The bust type progression is from LDC/LC -> laureate -> diademed -> diademed eyes-to-heaven -> rosette-diademed draped & cuiraissed. When the Constantinople mint first opened c.326 AD the laureate busts were still in effect, then switched to diademed before the DAFNE type started. The DAFNE type lasted long enough that it spanned the diademed, diademed eyes-to-heaven and final rosette-diademed draped & cuirassed bust types (so these bust types correspond to different production dates). The diademed eyes-to-heaven bust, on the bronze, is only seen at Constantinople (DAFNE) and the neighboring mints of Heraclea (VOT XXX) and Cyzicus (campgate).[/QUOTE]