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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor_Clark, post: 4432797, member: 10613&quot;]They are scarcer but you can find them. A common LRB with field marks is the half follis issued from mints controlled by Licinius from A.D. 321- 324 (Heraclea, Nicomedia, Cyzicus, Antioch, and Alexandria). The coin below is one of these. They were struck for all the rulers, but had no value outside the territory of Licinius.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1109614[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>In the right field of the coin pictured above there is an X over II and an episemon - &quot;The last sign is clearly an episemon, epigraphically employed for S(emis) also.&quot; (RIC VII p. 12) Semis literally means half, and the semis coin was valued at half an as. So this coin is valued at 12.5, half of the normal follis struck in Constantinian mints at the time. The normal follis was valued at 25 denarii communes (DC is an accounting unit).</p><p><br /></p><p>The real reason that this radiate half follis had no value outside of Licinius&#039; land was that it contains less than 1% silver, versus the Constantinian coins of the time which are circa 4%.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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