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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8154008, member: 110504"][USER=117904]@Ryan McVay[/USER], look what I just did.</p><p>For a little context, it eventually landed on me that, having collected mostly late Roman AE for years as a kid (partly because that was what was available), I no longer had a good example of Constantine. Just fixed that. [ATTACH=full]1422591[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1422602[/ATTACH]I haven't even checked Wildwinds, never mind ACSearch or CoinArchives. But this corresponds to my, <i><b>um</b></i>, 2nd, 1974 edition of Sear, 3771, except that the mint is Trier.</p><p>I like the somewhat ironic convergence of the obverse motif, with Constantine in, Yep, that helmet, and full armor, with the reverse legend, BEATA TRANQUILITAS. ...Yeah, Whatever.</p><p>Apart from that, I like the height of the relief; almost a return from the nadir of the later 'barracks emperors' and Diocletian's Triumvirate to the earlier phases of the 3rd century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8154008, member: 110504"][USER=117904]@Ryan McVay[/USER], look what I just did. For a little context, it eventually landed on me that, having collected mostly late Roman AE for years as a kid (partly because that was what was available), I no longer had a good example of Constantine. Just fixed that. [ATTACH=full]1422591[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1422602[/ATTACH]I haven't even checked Wildwinds, never mind ACSearch or CoinArchives. But this corresponds to my, [I][B]um[/B][/I], 2nd, 1974 edition of Sear, 3771, except that the mint is Trier. I like the somewhat ironic convergence of the obverse motif, with Constantine in, Yep, that helmet, and full armor, with the reverse legend, BEATA TRANQUILITAS. ...Yeah, Whatever. Apart from that, I like the height of the relief; almost a return from the nadir of the later 'barracks emperors' and Diocletian's Triumvirate to the earlier phases of the 3rd century.[/QUOTE]
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