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maridvnvm Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2106 Posts	Posted Today 7H 22M ago I am having a lean time collecting in my core areas and as tends to happen at these times I get very easily distracted into other areas. This coin is an example of just such a circumstance. I was very taken with the portrait. I have had a very on/off collecting relationship with the folles of Lugdunum. I have built up a collection in the past and parted with it but there is often something that draws me back. Constantius Chlorus - Follis Obv:- CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES, Laureate, cuirassed bust right Rev:- GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI, Genius standing left, modius on head, naked but for chalmys over left shoulder, right holding patera, left cornucopia Minted in Lugdunum (A \| _ /LP). A.D. 298 (Bastien A.D. 297) Reference(s) - Bastien XI 96 (V-L 2 examples cited with this legend break). RIC VI Lugdunum 39a (Rated Scarce) 10.25 gms, 27.70 mm. 0 degrees Bastien notes two different reverse legend breaks with P-V being slightly more commonly encountered with 4 examples cited. The number of examples cited by Bastien would seem to agree with the RIC rating of Scarce. Finding these with decent silvering seems to prove quite difficult though they do turn up on the market every couple of years. I like the style of the portrait, which is very distinctively Constantius Chlorus, and the overall condition is quite good. I plan to keep this one and add to it in the near future. I feel yet another sub-collection coming on. Report this Post to the Staff

tdziemia Pillar of the Community United States 8007 Posts	Posted Today 2H 10M ago Quote: I feel yet another sub-collection coming on Collector's entropy Common affliction. Once upon a time I had only one Florence medieval for my collection of coins with images of patron saints. Then I realized the 13th century grosso has a very different image of John the Baptist than the late 15th century grosso ... and that the early 15th century grosso has John enthroned, a rather unusual depiction. And how could I NOT get an example where his executioner stands above him with sword drawn! Or the oft-painted baptism of Christ scene? Ah well... I now have a small Florence type set. And, I can see why you were attracted to that coin. Edited by tdziemia Today 2H 9M ago Report this Post to the Staff
Victor Pillar of the Community United States 935 Posts	Posted Today 53M ago Constantius I A.D. 296 AE follis 26x27mm 10.8g FL VAL CONSTANTIVS NOB C; laureate head right. GENIO POPVLI ROMANI; Genius standing left, modius on head, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder, right holding patera, left cornucopiae. RIC VI Lugdunum 17a This coin is part of the so-called "Invasion of Britain" coinage. Initially, numismatists believed that these coins without mintmarks must have been struck in London; but Bastien showed that they were actually from Lugdunum. So the theory became that this coinage was struck for use by Constantius while fighting Carausius...maybe even struck at an unknown continental mint (maybe Boulogne) staffed by mint workers from Lugdunum. More recently, Drost has theorized that this issue without mintmark is actually just the first issue from Lyon and found an obverse match with the PLA issue. Of course, Drost could have it reversed, The PLA issue was earlier (295- 296) and then this unmarked issue (296), as RIC has it arranged. Report this Post to the Staff
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