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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3649680, member: 75937"]Your coin is actually an interesting variety, [USER=105415]@Coin Pedant[/USER], and I think you got a good deal on it. You'll notice it has the reverse legend broken as GLORI-A EXER-CITVS instead of the usual GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS. This identifies your coin as a later issue (AD 335-336), the last of the type with two standards on the reverse before changing to a lower weight coin with only one standard. It's RIC vii, p. 526, 199.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason behind the change in legend break reflects a shift in imperial personnel. The issue with the usual GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS reverse was shared by Constantine I, Constantine II and Constantius II.</p><p><br /></p><p>The next issue -- like yours with the GLORI-A EXER-CITVS reverse legend -- added coins for the newly appointed Caesars Constans and Delmatius but before long they stopped making the two-standards coins and switched to the lighter weight, one-standard design.</p><p><br /></p><p>The significance of the legend break was appreciated by numismatists who noted that coins of Constans had the C of EXERCITVS moved from the top to the right side so they figured coins of the three people who made coins in both series could be separated according to the position of the legend break into those made before Constans and those made after he joined the group.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have one of these later two-standard issues with the same legend break as yours, but for Constantius II.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/constantius-ii-gloria-exercitvs-thessalonica-centenionalis-jpg.669720/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Constantius II, Caesar AD 324-337</p><p>Roman billon reduced centenionalis, 2.06 g, 16.7 mm, 6h</p><p>Thessalonica, AD 335-336</p><p>Obv: FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right</p><p>Rev: GLORI-A EXER-CITVS, two soldiers standing, two standards between them; SMTSΓ in exergue</p><p>Refs: RIC vii, p. 526, 200; LRBC I 842; Cohen 104; RCV 17690[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3649680, member: 75937"]Your coin is actually an interesting variety, [USER=105415]@Coin Pedant[/USER], and I think you got a good deal on it. You'll notice it has the reverse legend broken as GLORI-A EXER-CITVS instead of the usual GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS. This identifies your coin as a later issue (AD 335-336), the last of the type with two standards on the reverse before changing to a lower weight coin with only one standard. It's RIC vii, p. 526, 199. The reason behind the change in legend break reflects a shift in imperial personnel. The issue with the usual GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS reverse was shared by Constantine I, Constantine II and Constantius II. The next issue -- like yours with the GLORI-A EXER-CITVS reverse legend -- added coins for the newly appointed Caesars Constans and Delmatius but before long they stopped making the two-standards coins and switched to the lighter weight, one-standard design. The significance of the legend break was appreciated by numismatists who noted that coins of Constans had the C of EXERCITVS moved from the top to the right side so they figured coins of the three people who made coins in both series could be separated according to the position of the legend break into those made before Constans and those made after he joined the group. I have one of these later two-standard issues with the same legend break as yours, but for Constantius II. [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/constantius-ii-gloria-exercitvs-thessalonica-centenionalis-jpg.669720/[/IMG] Constantius II, Caesar AD 324-337 Roman billon reduced centenionalis, 2.06 g, 16.7 mm, 6h Thessalonica, AD 335-336 Obv: FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right Rev: GLORI-A EXER-CITVS, two soldiers standing, two standards between them; SMTSΓ in exergue Refs: RIC vii, p. 526, 200; LRBC I 842; Cohen 104; RCV 17690[/QUOTE]
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