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Constantine As Cæsar . Heraclea ?

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Rummaging about I found this one tucked away in one of my cabinets
Looks to be the style of Heraclea but the mint mark is quite difficult to read !
Looks much like a T
But I'm thinking it must actually be a Γ
Hence HT Γ ? Heraclea 3rd Officina ?

Constantine-As-Cæsar-.-Heraclea-?
Constantine-As-Cæsar-.-Heraclea-?

Constantine I Billon Follis
GENIO POPVLI ROMANI
9.47 grams 26-27mm
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It's from Antioch. This issue is well attested though it was mistakenly left out of RIC. This type was even noted by Voetter years before RIC was published. see King and Spaer, "A Hoard of Coins from Northern Sinai," NC 1977, 4000-4009.

here is my example


Constantine-As-Cæsar-.-Heraclea-?

Constantine I
A.D. 306
26x27mm 9.2gm
FL VAL CONSTANTINVS NOB CAES; laureate head right.
GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI; Genius standing left, modius on head, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder, right holding patera, left cornucopiae; in right field I.
In ex. ANT dot over dot
RIC VI Antioch --
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Excellent
I thank you !
It surely did look like a T
But all my answers pointed at gamma !

Fortunately I still have a Heraclea in my cabinet ...
Constantine-As-Cæsar-.-Heraclea-?
Constantine-As-Cæsar-.-Heraclea-?

12.41 grams 28-29mm
AD 306-7
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