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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1634555, member: 42773&quot;]This is a little bronze I acquired last week...</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s4.postimage.org/ti1b9zfod/conboth.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse is described as &quot;bust of Constantinopolis&quot; - so is it NOT the bust of Constantine the Great? Is it a personification of the city itself?</p><p><br /></p><p>In exergue are the letters SMTSD. Which of those letters indicate the mint at Thessalonica, and which are control letters?</p><p><br /></p><p>The denomination is given as AE3 - do ancient collectors refer to the size of the coin if they don&#039;t know what the denomination was called? I&#039;ve heard these little bronze coins referred to as &quot;Centenionalis&quot; or &quot;Half-Centenionalis&quot; - is that a denomination, or some other sort of term?</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is referenced as RIC VII 188. What does the &quot;VII&quot; denote? I&#039;m assuming the Arabic numerals indicate the variety. I&#039;ve looked at a few different varieties of this coin with different numbers on coinproject.com.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for any help![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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