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Offline Genio popvli romani

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Constantine votive from Arles.
« on: January 18, 2013, 05:12:10 AM »
A very good imitative coin for Arles.

 



RIC252 is probably one of the most imitated coin for Arles mint (RICVII) but this one not appears frequently, I found only one other sample with this obverse legende but different mintmark (sold by forumancientcoins.com):

 
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Re: Constantine votive from Arles.
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2013, 12:21:05 PM »
It is amazing how many good Arles imitations must have been in circulation at the time.
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Re: Constantine votive from Arles.
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2013, 03:48:22 PM »
I am curious to know why especially this issue has been so imitated. Almost 30% of irregular coins from Arles in Lech Stepniewski's notinric are #252 or "#252 like". http://www.notinric.lechstepniewski.info/av7.html.
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