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Constantine I Sol from Ticinum facing forward
« on: December 03, 2014, 02:42:14 PM »
I don't pay much attention to the various ways that Sol is portrayed on LRB's; but here is one example that I think stands out- a Sol facing forward...this one just sold for $220.76

Constantine I
A.D. 312- 313
22mm    4.3gm
CONSTANTINVS P F AVG; laureate and cuirassed.
SOLI INVICTO COMITI; Sol rad., stg. r., facing forward, raising r. hand, globe in l., chlamys over left shoulder and hanging behind.
in ex. ST
RIC VI Ticinum 133

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Re: Constantine I Sol from Ticinum facing forward
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2014, 01:51:44 PM »
I don't pay much attention to the various ways that Sol is portrayed on LRB's; but here is one example that I think stands out- a Sol facing forward...this one just sold for $220.76

Constantine I
A.D. 312- 313
22mm    4.3gm
CONSTANTINVS P F AVG; laureate and cuirassed.
SOLI INVICTO COMITI; Sol rad., stg. r., facing forward, raising r. hand, globe in l., chlamys over left shoulder and hanging behind.
in ex. ST
RIC VI Ticinum 133

I like to think that these kind of coins with the frontal portrait of Sol and Mars were the work of the "master dies cutter" who cut the dies of the gold coins from Ticinum and Rome mints with frontal portraits of Maxentius and Constantine.