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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 4724182, member: 14873&quot;]Several of my thirty coins fill multiple roles in my Ancient coin pursuits. I use my coins as teaching aids whenever I give talks/lectures to groups of friends, clubs, family gatherings (strictly voluntary <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) relating to the historical association of my coins or how to produce correctly proportioned Roman Capital lettering, etc. - or just general information about collecting ancient coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example I might use a coin such as the following Tetrarchic follis to talk about the coinage produced by Constantius preparatory to his invasion of seccessionist Britain, or as an example of the general conformity of Tetrarchic folles, or the titulature of the Caesars in the Tetrarchy or the state of inscriptional lettering on coins in the later empire and so on.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1157361[/ATTACH] RIC Volume VI, Lugdunum, folles, No. 17a, Constantius, Caesar of the West, 10.1 gm</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse depiction: Constantius, truncated bare neck bust, laureate, facing right.</p><p>Inscription: FL VAL CONSTANTIVS NOB C (earliest titulature)</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse depiction: Genius of the Roman people facing left</p><p>Inscription: GENIO POPV -- LI ROMANI</p><p><br /></p><p>Britannia invasion coinage produced in Gaul at unknown Continental mint</p><p><br /></p><p>……………[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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