Here is a beautifully engraved coin. It is an otherwise common coin, but the fine attention to detail has elevated it above most other examples; I have seldom seen them as nice. My first thought when I saw it was that it looked like a medallion. The obverse is just stunning, Constantinopolis has an elegant neck and finely engraved features, there is some damage on the obverse, but it doesn't interfere with the portrait.
Constantinopolis Commemorative
A.D. 330- 335
17mm 2.9gm
CONSTAN-TINOPOLIS; laureate, helmeted, wearing imperial mantle, holding scepter.
REV: Victory stg. on prow, holding long scepter in r. hand, and resting l. hand on shield.
in ex. SMNB
RIC VII Nicomedia 196
