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akglen Valued Member United States 170 Posts	Posted 11/15/2008 7:27 pm Hi, I have this coin and would like to learn more about it. By following some of the links I've found in posts here, I believe it to depict Constantine and to have been minted in Nicomedia; am I correct? Thanks for any information, Glen Report this Post to the Staff

Sir Ferrari Pillar of the Community United States 671 Posts	Posted 11/15/2008 10:49 pm Here's the info: Constantine I, AE3 OBV: CONSTANTINVS MAX AVG -- diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right REV: GLORIA EXERCITVS -- two soldiers standing inward facing two standards between them, holding spears and shields, SMNA in ex. Reference: RIC VII 188 Here is a nice example: http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/..._vII_188.jpg Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 11/16/2008 02:11 am Very nice patina. Report this Post to the Staff
maridvnvm Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2100 Posts	Posted 11/16/2008 05:47 am The attribution is correct but it has SMNS in exe. rather than SMNA. Which is a different officina. Regards, Martin Report this Post to the Staff
akglen Valued Member United States 170 Posts	Posted 11/16/2008 12:28 pm Thanks for the information and comment. How does one reconcile the difference with SMNS or is that even important? Not that I would do it, but when I first started looking into this I so wanted to give it a good scrubbing so that I could read the lettering! This is so much of an eye opener, I used to think my few coins from the 1700's and 1800's were old. Report this Post to the Staff
maridvnvm Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2100 Posts	Posted 11/16/2008 1:03 pm The last letter here identifies the Officina, which you can consider as a workshop within the Mint of Nicomedia. The SMN identifies the Mint as Nicomedia and the last letter identifies the workshop, of which there were six at Nicomedia at this point marking A, B, &Gamma, &Delta, E and S. The two coins were simply produced by different officina at the same mint during the same issue. RIC dates this coin to being produced between A.D. 330 and A.D. 335. I hope that makes some sense. Regards, Martin Report this Post to the Staff
akglen Valued Member United States 170 Posts	Posted 11/16/2008 7:02 pm Thanks for the clarification answered my question perfectly. Now all I have to figure out is how to collect coins without going broke! Report this Post to the Staff
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