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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24671851, member: 26430&quot;]That top one, Prince of Youth, is great overall, but the figure on the reverse (incl. the standards and robes) is really impressive. Amazing that they could give that little face so much character. A great act of tiny artistry &gt;1700 years ago!</p><p><br /></p><p>I also love the SAPIENT ones. Great reverse legend!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>One of my princes of Lugdunum, with captives relegated to the position of mintmark.</b> Perhaps referencing Franks/Alamanni, <a href="http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/barb/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/barb/" rel="nofollow">per V. Clark</a>, &quot;a bit of a morale boost for the citizens- a little propaganda …. Rome was beating the barbarians!&quot;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1573308[/ATTACH]</p><p>(I also find it fascinating that captives were such a pervasive, taken-for-granted feature of Roman imagery that they could serve such decorative and subordinate roles as mintmarks.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Speaking of Constantine copying the reverses from previous emperors:</b></p><p>I think the ADVENTVS types with captives must&#039;ve been copied from Probus, about 25-30 years earlier. (But adding a star or S/F in fields.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1573306[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Probus&#039; reverse was struck at a bunch of different mints, but the Rome ones usually had the same legend break adopted later by Constantine&#039;s Londinium version (e.g., <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=probus+adventvs+captive+rome+155" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=probus+adventvs+captive+rome+155" rel="nofollow">RIC 155 [ACSearch results]</a>, or <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=probus+adventvs+captive+rome+157" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=probus+adventvs+captive+rome+157" rel="nofollow">RIC 157 [ACSearch res.]</a> like mine below):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1573307[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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