Constantine I BEATA TRANQVILLITAS from Trier...ex-Alten

[Victor]

I just got this BEATA from Trier. It is nothing special; but is ex Dieter Alten of Alten and Zschucke who wrote Die romische Munzserie Beata Tranquillitas. I noticed something that I expect interested Dieter also-- there is a dot after the XX on the altar.

Constantine I
A.D. 322
19x20mm     3.5g
CONSTANTINVS AVG; helmeted and cuirassed bust right.
BEATA TRAN-QVILLITAS; globe set on altar inscribed VO/TIS/ XX•; above, three stars
In ex. PTR•
RIC VII Trier 341

[Heliodromus]

Interesting - the dot looks deliberate since the XX is shifted over.

[Victor]

Yes, it does look like it was deliberate. Too bad he purchased it in 2009, or it surely would have been in the BEATA book; which was published in 2004.