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<p>[QUOTE="seth77, post: 4953380, member: 56653"]A rare siliqua of Constantius II from Rome, from a lot of late roman silver offered by Herbert Grun:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1190717[/ATTACH]</p><p>AR19mm 2.94g silver siliqua, minted at Rome, cca. late 353.</p><p>DN CONSTAN - TIVS PF AVG; pearl-diademed draped cuirassed bust r.</p><p>VOT / XXX / MVLTIS / XXXX inside wreath.</p><p>R in exergue</p><p>RIC VIII Rome 234, R2.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Notes:</b> Noted as rare in RIC but specimens do turn out. Interesting reverse legend inside the wreath, showing a middle issue between the longer VOTIS - MVLTIS and VOT - MVLT types, which might point to a dating between the beginning of the 350s and 355. The vota for 30 years of rule -- Constantius's tricennalia -- indicates a possible dating to around 353/354, marking 30 years from 324, when Constantius was raised to the rank of Caesar by his father Constantine I. The full weight of the specimen also points to a dating in the first half of the 350s, or at the very least before 357. But the most likely dating should be during the late period of Gallus as Caesar, as coins bearing his name were also minted in this scarce issue. </p><p><br /></p><p>The lack of officina in the mintmark is also coherent with the mints at Sirmium and Siscia (both having been main issuers of siliquae during the campaign against Magnentius (351-353). Why the output in Rome was so scarce at this time compared to the main mints in Europe at Sirmium and Siscia we do not know, but between 352 and December 354, Rome only issued one small (or brief) series of siliquae and multiples, naming both Constantius and Gallus, honoring the tricennalia of Constantius.</p><p><br /></p><p>Similar specimen <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1909290" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1909290" rel="nofollow">here</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="seth77, post: 4953380, member: 56653"]A rare siliqua of Constantius II from Rome, from a lot of late roman silver offered by Herbert Grun: [ATTACH=full]1190717[/ATTACH] AR19mm 2.94g silver siliqua, minted at Rome, cca. late 353.[B][/B] DN CONSTAN - TIVS PF AVG; pearl-diademed draped cuirassed bust r. VOT / XXX / MVLTIS / XXXX inside wreath. R in exergue RIC VIII Rome 234, R2. [B]Notes:[/B] Noted as rare in RIC but specimens do turn out. Interesting reverse legend inside the wreath, showing a middle issue between the longer VOTIS - MVLTIS and VOT - MVLT types, which might point to a dating between the beginning of the 350s and 355. The vota for 30 years of rule -- Constantius's tricennalia -- indicates a possible dating to around 353/354, marking 30 years from 324, when Constantius was raised to the rank of Caesar by his father Constantine I. The full weight of the specimen also points to a dating in the first half of the 350s, or at the very least before 357. But the most likely dating should be during the late period of Gallus as Caesar, as coins bearing his name were also minted in this scarce issue. The lack of officina in the mintmark is also coherent with the mints at Sirmium and Siscia (both having been main issuers of siliquae during the campaign against Magnentius (351-353). Why the output in Rome was so scarce at this time compared to the main mints in Europe at Sirmium and Siscia we do not know, but between 352 and December 354, Rome only issued one small (or brief) series of siliquae and multiples, naming both Constantius and Gallus, honoring the tricennalia of Constantius. Similar specimen [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1909290']here[/URL].[/QUOTE]
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