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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8127884, member: 85693&quot;]Those are a couple of lovely LRB&#039;s [USER=20201]@TheNickelGuy[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p>I am rather new to this type as well, but I would suggest a correction (other CTers, please chime in on this):&nbsp; that goddess on the reverse is not, despite the legends, Concordia.&nbsp; Rather it is Roma (and/or Constantinopolis) - I am not entirely certain how to tell these apart, but I think Roma is helmeted, Conastantinopolis turreted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an OCRE Gratian search for the CONCORDIA types; note the reverse descriptions:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=portrait_facet%3A%22Gratian%22+AND+fulltext%3ACONCOR" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=portrait_facet%3A%22Gratian%22+AND+fulltext%3ACONCOR" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=portrait_facet:&quot;Gratian&quot;+AND+fulltext:CONCOR</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I was making the same mistake over the past couple of weeks when working on my first one of these, thinking the reverse goddess must surely be Concordia, given the legends.&nbsp; Nope (unless OCRE is wrong).&nbsp; Concordia was not the kind of deity to wear a helmet, I think.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This one is mine thanks to fellow CTer [USER=95247]@tenbobbit[/USER] who generously sent me an enormous lot of lovely ancients back in October.&nbsp; Slowly, I am working them up and photographing them, and plan on sharing the lot in an upcoming post.&nbsp; But as a teaser-trailer, here is this one, same type as the OP, but issued for Theodosius I - I am smitten by the green patina with bronzy highlights:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1415605[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Theodosius I&nbsp; Æ 17</b></p><p><b>(378-383 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Siscia Mint</b></p><p>DN THEODO-SIVS PF AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right / CONCOR-DIA AVGGG, Roma seated facing, looking left, holding globe and reversed spear, ASISC in ex.</p><p>RIC IX Siscia 27d: Subtype 1.</p><p>(2.22 grams / 17 x 16 mm)</p><p>[USER=95247]@tenbobbit[/USER]&nbsp; Oct. 2021&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Merry Christmas![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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