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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4410333, member: 75937&quot;]It&#039;s S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y night ...</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]7BKKaKT_dtM[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>... and I&#039;ve been cataloging and photographing some folles of the tetrarchy. Here&#039;s a couple of Constantius I ones from Antioch and Trier.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1107363[/ATTACH]</p><p>Constantius I, Caesar, 293-305.</p><p>Roman billon follis, 9.83 g, 26.3 mm, 5 h.</p><p>Antioch, AD 300-301.</p><p>Obv: FL VAL CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES, laureate head right.</p><p>Rev: GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI, Genius standing left, modius on head, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder, holding patera from which liquid flows, and cornucopiae; K/B-V//ANT.</p><p>Refs: RIC vi, p. 620, 55a; Cohen 89; RCV 14069.</p><p>Notes: The K in the left field probably refers to the retariffing of the follis at 20 denarii communes, while the V in the right field may refer to the revised valuation of the follis at 5 to the silver argentius (Harl, Kenneth W. &quot;Marks of Value on Tetrarchic Nummi and Diocletian&#039;s Monetary Policy.&quot; <i>Phoenix</i>, vol. 39, no. 3, 1985, pp. 263–270, citing C.H.V. Sutherland, &quot;Denarius and Sestertius in Diocletian&#039;s Currency Reform,&quot; <i>JRS</i> 51 (1961), pp. 93-97).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1107364[/ATTACH]</p><p>Constantius I, Caesar, 293-305.</p><p>Roman billon follis, 9.95 g, 26.6 mm, 11 h.</p><p>Trier, AD 296-297.</p><p>Obv: CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES, laureate head right.</p><p>Rev: GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI, Genius standing left, modius on head, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder, holding patera and cornucopiae; A/Γ//TR.</p><p>Refs: RIC vi, p. 183, 213a; Cohen 61; RCV 14035.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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