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Contributor:
Teresa Darling. |
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Issuer: |
CONSTANS, AD 337-350. AE Centenionalis (20mm). Struck AD 348-50. |
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Obverse: |
D. N. CONSTANS P. F. AVG., his diademed, draped and cuirassed bust facing left, holding globe. |
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Reverse: |
FEL TEMP REPARATIO, Constans bare-headed, standing to the left, holding labarum with Chi-Rho in right hand, left resting on shield, two bound captives with pointed caps (Persian) standing in front of him; in exergue BSIS. |
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Reference: |
RIC VIII 224 Siscia mint; Sear 3975 var. Grade: aU. |
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Comments: |
For more information, read the "Constans" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Constans see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews. |