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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 7567507, member: 44316"][ATTACH=full]1304906[/ATTACH] </p><p>You might expect London-mint coins to be inferior, given the remote location of London, and some of its coins are pretty crude. However, the portrait of Maximian struck c. 303 onward was the motivation for buying this coin in 2014. Sometimes tetrarchal portraiture is dismissed as not being individual, but this portrait looks realistic to me. </p><p>28 mm. 9.89 grams.</p><p>RIC VI London 23b.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 7567507, member: 44316"][ATTACH=full]1304906[/ATTACH] You might expect London-mint coins to be inferior, given the remote location of London, and some of its coins are pretty crude. However, the portrait of Maximian struck c. 303 onward was the motivation for buying this coin in 2014. Sometimes tetrarchal portraiture is dismissed as not being individual, but this portrait looks realistic to me. 28 mm. 9.89 grams. RIC VI London 23b.[/QUOTE]
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