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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1258165, member: 19463&quot;]For those new to the concept:&nbsp; The mints of this period were divided into workshops which numbered up to 15 (at Antioch).&nbsp; Some mints divided up the shops so that certain coins were all struck by one shop while others used all shops for all coins.&nbsp; When a shop made a few coins of a type or for a ruler that they usually did not serve, a rarity was created.&nbsp; The coin in question is one of the most common of Roman coins if you consider the reverse design.&nbsp; The ruler is one of the very common sons of Constantine.&nbsp; Antioch was a very prolific mint so its coins are very common.&nbsp; There are many coins from workshop E or 5.&nbsp; What makes this one special is that Antioch E did not make a lot of this type reverse combined with this ruler.&nbsp; We don&#039;t always know why something like that happened.&nbsp; It could be an error or it could be that they ran out of usable obverse dies for another person so one day they made some for Constans.&nbsp; Is this a situation that will make you pay big money or lose sleep because you don&#039;t have one?&nbsp; That question is up to each of us to decide.&nbsp; A million collectors regret not owning a 1909S VDB cent but how many people do you think are lusting after a E shop Antioch Constans Gloria Exercitus?&nbsp; The coin is a neat find and belongs in the collection of someone who appreciates it but the chances of selling it for enough to buy an S VDB (which is probably 10,000 times as common. approaches zero.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>More:</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/officina.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/officina.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/officina.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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