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Message:: [QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 2764884, member: 14873"]Edit: I changed the title for this thread as I unintentionally used an incorrect one -- I apologize for that mistake. Composition -- Only Aes (bronze with a silver wash) folles were produced by the London mint during this period (same composition for folles produced at Lugdunum). Weight range -- Typically 11.0 to 8.5 gm. Mints -- RIC Volume VI: A quantity of Constantius "Invasion coinage" (folles) was produced at a temporary Continental Mint (exact location unknown, although some French researchers and collectors list it as Boulogne), manned by Lugdunese workers. All other issues were produced at the London mint formerly operated by the usurper Emperors Carausius/Allectus now re-opened (most likely consisting of just one officina) by Constantius. Weight range -- Typically 11.0 to 8.5 gm. Obverse depiction -- Almost always cuirassed (sometimes draped) right facing busts (but occasionally bare neck truncated) with a laureate head. <img src="http://jp29.org/lon20o1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://jp29.org/lug17ao1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />Top: Cuirassed bust with laureate head Bottom: Bare neck truncated bust with laureate head Obverse inscription (legend) -- Around periphery -- names and titulature reading clockwise Following is a key for name and titulature abbreviations: <ul> <li>IMP - Imperator, the Augustus as supreme Commander.</li> <li>C - Caius as a praenomen.</li> <li>P - Pius, dutiful.</li> <li>PF - Pius Felix, dutiful and blessed.</li> <li>AVG, AV - Augustus, unique title of a ruling Emperor.</li> <li>FL - Flavius as a praenomen.</li> <li>VAL - Valerius, familial name.</li> <li>NOB, NOBIL - Noble, associated with Caesar.</li> <li>CAES, C - Caesar, heir to, and protege of, an Augustus.</li> </ul>Reverse depiction -- Almost always a representation of the Genius of the Roman People standing, facing left, head surmounted by a modius, naked except for a chlamys over the left shoulder, holding a patera in the right hand and cradling a cornucopia in the left arm. <img src="http://jp29.org/lon14ar1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />Depiction of Genius of the Roman people Reverse inscription (legend) -- around periphery, reading clockwise GENIO POPVLI ROMANI without a mint mark (often referred to as unmarked) except for the very early Group I coins (RIC numbers 1a through 5) that have LON in the exergue. Reverse axis -- 6 or 12 o'clock My primary reference:  Roman Imperial Coinage (RIC), Spink & Son Ltd., London, Volume VI The end of Constantius Coinage On 1 May 305 Constantius succeeded Maximian Herculius as Augustus of the West and Galerius Maximian succeeded Diocletian as Augustus of the East, as planned. Flavius Valerius Severus (Severus) was appointed Caesar of the West and Galerius Valerius Maximinus Daia (Maximinus) was appointed Caesar of the East. Constantius died at Eboracum (York) in Britain during a campaign against the warlike tribes of the North on 25 July 306. Just before he died, Constantius conferred Imperium on his son, Flavius Valerius Constantinus (later Constantine the Great). Although his army wanted to proclaim Constantine Augustus, Galerius Maximian, the now de-facto senior Augustus, proclaimed him Caesar of the West and elevated Severus to Augustus of the West in accordance with the rules for succession. The London Mint continued to operate until AD 325, mostly under the auspicies of Constantine.[/QUOTE]

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