Constantine I SOLI INVICTO COMITI from London

[Victor]

Here's a nice example of this type with an unusual flan. RIC mistakenly has this coin as cuirassed when it is trabeate. It is corrected in the London mint book.


Constantine I
A.D. 316
20x23mm    3.2g
CONSTANTINVS P AVG; laureate and trabeated bust left.
SOLI INVICTO COMITI; Sol rad., stg. L., raising r. hand, globe in l., chlamys across l. shoulder, across fields S/P.
in ex. MSL
RIC VII London 75 corr.; LMCC 8.07.018

[Heliodromus]

Nice! I still don't have this type myself, or quadriga type from same issue. Back in the good old days of 10-15 years ago the quadriga would occasionally appear for sale, but I haven't seen one in a long while.

I assume that Constantine's rare trabeate busts are all specifically the trabea consularis, so despite RIC's 316 date this should really be 315 for COS IIII.

[Victor]

Yes, in LMCC they date this issue to late 314- early 315, but I didn't change my RIC description. I have had two other examples of RIC 75, but sold them. I almost had a quadriga example, but it seems it was lost in shipping...maybe it will show up-- it has only been five years.

[Heliodromus]

That's annoying to lose something like that in the mail, although I was reading the other day of a record case where the post office delivered something 100 years later, so never say never !