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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 3207555, member: 87809&quot;]Sharing what I have found:</p><p>Constantine the Great bronzes having a reverse with Sol holding a globus were minted in nine cities in Italia, Gaul, Britannia, and Pannonia: Aquileia, Arles/Arelate, London/Londinium, Lyons/Lugdunum, Ostia, Rome, Siscia, Ticinum, and Trier/Treveri. This coin type was minted by Constantine for about eight years, between 310 and 318 AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>During the Constantine period it has been estimated that 1,000&#039;s of dies must have been needed for all the bronze issues. The interesting thing is that Roman coins were pretty standard and an emperor&#039;s portrait was pretty uniform so it is hard to figure out how they could make dies so standardized if many craftsmen were producing them individually. One theory is casting dies in order to replicate them exactly. Or the portraits could have been cut by the craftsmen and then replicated by others. However, researchers really have no conclusive evidence of this for the Roman period.</p><p><br /></p><p>The diameter of these Constantine the Great Sol/Globus is typically between 18 and 24 millimeters at their widest with relatively round coins, and the weight typically is between 2.4 and 4.8 grams, though fully intact pieces can be lighter than 1.8 grams or heavier than 6.2 grams.</p><p>The C - S symbols across the field on the reverse were only struck on coins minted in Rome in the years 315 - 316 AD, therefore the letter R should be in exergue followed by the officina number, which could be a T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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