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Message:: [QUOTE="Heliodromus, post: 7909280, member: 120820"]I don't think anyone is questioning the sequencing of the normal 2 standards and 1 standard Gloria Exercitvs types/issues, including associated city commemorative types. The issue marks and changing titles make that all clear. What's at question is only the "anonymous" Gloria Exercitvs 1 standard coins which have Roma/Constantinopolis obverses, and were only issued from a handful of mints (Thessalonica, Heraclea, Constantinople, Cyzicus, Nicomedia) centered around Constantinople. Per the "1 standard" reverse (and reduced module size) these could have been struck anytime after 335 AD up to 340 AD (when the Gloria Exercitvs type ended). Of course, while Constantine I was alive, the default expectation would be for any coin type to be issued from all active mints, barring some exceptional reason why a specific mint was doing something else. On the Gloria Exercitvs type we'd also expect an imperial obverse. The interregnum (~ 3 month period) after Constantine's death might explain the anomalous nature of these "anonymous" Gloria Exercitvs types, since we now have no-one clearly in charge (hence anonymous obverse), divided control of the empire (with most of the relevant mints under control of Constantius II), and also a brief time window which would explain the scarcity. For these coins to have been issued during Constantine's lifetime (i.e. 335-337), it seems there's some explaining to do![/QUOTE]