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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2946104, member: 19463"]The reason for the Phoenix being scarcer is obvious with a little thought. The FTR series began with three denominations. The Phoenix was the smallest; the Horseman was the largest and there were more than one middle types but all have the portrait bust left so you can tell them apart. Inflation soon made the smallest ones useless and caused the large ones to go on a series of weight reductions. After a while, the mid size also disappeared leaving the Falling Horseman alone and much reduced in size. Soon after the horseman also fell to inflation, Julian II did a currency reform and started over with a new basic unit with bull reverse. Shortly before his death, Constantius II killed the last horseman and replaced it with a light weight solo soldier type but without the FEL TEMP REPARATIO legend. Roman coins were expected to have a metal value matching their purchasing power. If we, today, followed those same rules, our 2017 Lincoln cent would be hard to see without a microscope.</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantius and Constans seemed to disagree on the designs for the middle denomination so we see more of one style from mints controlled by one brother and more of another from the other. Each struck coins for the other so we do get each type for each brother but you will find some more common for one and others for the other. The book Bruck, <b>Late Roman Bronze Coinage</b> is good to explain this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2946104, member: 19463"]The reason for the Phoenix being scarcer is obvious with a little thought. The FTR series began with three denominations. The Phoenix was the smallest; the Horseman was the largest and there were more than one middle types but all have the portrait bust left so you can tell them apart. Inflation soon made the smallest ones useless and caused the large ones to go on a series of weight reductions. After a while, the mid size also disappeared leaving the Falling Horseman alone and much reduced in size. Soon after the horseman also fell to inflation, Julian II did a currency reform and started over with a new basic unit with bull reverse. Shortly before his death, Constantius II killed the last horseman and replaced it with a light weight solo soldier type but without the FEL TEMP REPARATIO legend. Roman coins were expected to have a metal value matching their purchasing power. If we, today, followed those same rules, our 2017 Lincoln cent would be hard to see without a microscope. Constantius and Constans seemed to disagree on the designs for the middle denomination so we see more of one style from mints controlled by one brother and more of another from the other. Each struck coins for the other so we do get each type for each brother but you will find some more common for one and others for the other. The book Bruck, [B]Late Roman Bronze Coinage[/B] is good to explain this.[/QUOTE]
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