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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 643941, member: 9204&quot;]I&#039;ll have to show two, because I can never settle on one. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18271/Licinius%20I%20AE3%2C%20Siscia%2C%20319-320%20AD.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Licinius I</p><p>AE 3 – 20mm, 3.1g</p><p>Siscia, 319-320 AD</p><p>IMP LIC-INIVS AVG</p><p>Laureate bust r., bit of drapery on lr. shoulder</p><p>VICT • LAETAE PRINC PERP</p><p>Victories inscribing shield with VOT PR on altar with “I”</p><p>ASIS * in ex</p><p>RIC VII 96 var.</p><p>ex Forvm&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The style of the portrait recalls those of Maxentius or the tetrarch Maximianus. Furthermore, there is on the left shoulder a bit of drapery. That particular motif fell out of use nearly two hundred years before this coin was struck.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18271/Tiberius_semis_brockage.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Tiberius</p><p>AE semis – 18mm</p><p>Lugdunum, 12-14 AD</p><p>TI CAESAR AVGVST F IMPERAT VII</p><p>laureate head r.</p><p>brockage of obverse, intended Altar of Lugdunum type</p><p>RIC 246 [Augustus]</p><p><br /></p><p>And of course, a classic brockage. Brockages are much more common on Republican denarii and Gallic antoniniani. Its quite unusual to see them for this time period.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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