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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3125853, member: 75937"]The most interesting of my many GLORIA EXERCITVS types:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]796520[/ATTACH]</p><p>Constantius II, Caesar AD 324-337.</p><p>Roman billon reduced centenionalis, 2.06 g, 16.7 mm, 6h.</p><p>Thessalonica, AD 335-336.</p><p>Obv: FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.</p><p>Rev: GLORI-A EXER-CITVS, two soldiers standing, two standards between them; SMTSΓ in exergue.</p><p>Refs: RIC vii, p. 526, 200; LRBC I 842; Cohen 104; RCV 17690.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note: Not to be confused with the much more common earlier issue, RIC 185-186, which bears the reverse legend GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS.</p><p><br /></p><p>The difference in the break in the inscription is meaningful. The reason is that the earlier issue bearing the typical GLOR-IAEXERC-ITVS legend was shared by father Constantine, Constantine II and Constantius II. The next issue added coins for the newly appointed Caesars Constans and Delmatius but before long they stopped making the two standards coins and switched to the lighter weight one standard design.</p><p><br /></p><p>Numismatists noted that coins of Constans had the C of EXERCITVS moved from the top to the right side (i.e. GLORI-AEXER-CITVS), allowing the coins of the three people who made coins in both series to be separated according to the C position into those made before Constans and those made after he joined the group. This difference allows this coin to be dated to AD 335-336.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3125853, member: 75937"]The most interesting of my many GLORIA EXERCITVS types: [ATTACH=full]796520[/ATTACH] Constantius II, Caesar AD 324-337. Roman billon reduced centenionalis, 2.06 g, 16.7 mm, 6h. Thessalonica, AD 335-336. Obv: FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: GLORI-A EXER-CITVS, two soldiers standing, two standards between them; SMTSΓ in exergue. Refs: RIC vii, p. 526, 200; LRBC I 842; Cohen 104; RCV 17690. Note: Not to be confused with the much more common earlier issue, RIC 185-186, which bears the reverse legend GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS. The difference in the break in the inscription is meaningful. The reason is that the earlier issue bearing the typical GLOR-IAEXERC-ITVS legend was shared by father Constantine, Constantine II and Constantius II. The next issue added coins for the newly appointed Caesars Constans and Delmatius but before long they stopped making the two standards coins and switched to the lighter weight one standard design. Numismatists noted that coins of Constans had the C of EXERCITVS moved from the top to the right side (i.e. GLORI-AEXER-CITVS), allowing the coins of the three people who made coins in both series to be separated according to the C position into those made before Constans and those made after he joined the group. This difference allows this coin to be dated to AD 335-336.[/QUOTE]
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