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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 884970, member: 19463&quot;]<img src="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/hutgrp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The currency reform that brought us the FEL TEMP REPARATIO legend originally had three denominations.&nbsp; The largest coins were Falling Horsemen or Galley types.&nbsp; Mints were under the control of two brothers and tended to favor one or the other type even if they did issue both some of the time.&nbsp; The middle denomination of the group was&nbsp; distinguished by the use of left facing bust portraits holding a globe&nbsp; in the hand.&nbsp; These AE2&nbsp; coins were only slightly smaller than the&nbsp; largest denomination but contained less silver in the alloy and were&nbsp; probably valued at half the large coins they&nbsp; accompanied. Mints controlled by Constans preferred a reverse scene shows a soldier leading a small&nbsp; barbarian from a hut located under a &#039;tree&#039;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Constantius II&#039;s mints preferred a type with a soldier and two captives.&nbsp; The interesting point on&nbsp; the Hut coins is that they were issued by 13 different mints and each used&nbsp; a different type tree (branch, shrub or plant).&nbsp; Perhaps botanists will&nbsp; be able to identify the species intended.&nbsp; Coins without mintmarks can&nbsp; be placed by the style of the tree and hut.&nbsp; The type was used more&nbsp; commonly at mints controlled by Constans but versions in the name of Constantius II&nbsp; also exist.&nbsp; The illustration above shows an obverse of Constans (far left) and&nbsp; Constantius II (second coin) followed by reverses from six different&nbsp; mints. The Galley type as well as the Huts&nbsp; were discontinued on the death of Constans so the variation in sizes is&nbsp; much more limited than with the Falling Horseman series.&nbsp; About that same time inflation pressures caused the large denomination to shrink with no need for the fractions.&nbsp; The Falling Horseman continued to be issued for a decade all the while getting smaller and smaller.&nbsp; Demand for more and more of these less valuable coins caused them to be extremely common even today.&nbsp; The Hut and other types in the original series were just part of a currency reform that failed and are much less common now.&nbsp; </p><p>More:</p><p><a href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/ftr.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/ftr.html" rel="nofollow">http://dougsmith.ancients.info/ftr.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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