Maurice mix-up

[Heliodromus]

Does Maurice have any relatives I can complain to about errors in "Numismatique Constantinienne" ? 

I found this concoction on Vol II, Plate I.



My thoughts rapidly went from "wow, that's unexpected" to "but, the bust style is wrong for London" to "but it looks strangely familiar ....".

So, it turns out the reverse die is from Arles, and I'd seen it on this coin in the Nummus database, referernced to Ferrando.



It's not just a plate mix up in Maurice, since he also refers to this Licinius/Adventus type in the text.

Now I'm wondering had he really seen a Licinius/Adventus (a mule perhaps), or was it all due to mixing up his plaster casts.

[Victor]

That's an interesting mistake. I have Maurice and it looks nice on my shelf; but I have almost never looked in it.

[Heliodromus]

Yeah, the only use I've found for Maurice is the occasional photo that can't be found elsewhere.

I'm just using the Hathitrust scans. For anyone else interested, they have all three volumes available here:

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001597013

Here's a few more:

Licinius Profectio Avgg aureus, from Paris. This is why I went looking at Maurice in the first place. RIC suggests the occasion as being Licinius's departure for Milan in 313 AD (to rendezvous with Constantine who departed from Italy = AVGG).



Gloria Romanorvm medallion, from Paris.



Crispus Siscia anepigraphic. Maurice only cites Voetter; RIC only knows of specimen in Vienna.



Contantine "chi-rho" from Ticinum. Probably a mule - I've never seen another.

[romeman]

The Crispus dynastic bronze is still in Vienna:

[romeman]

The Paris gold medallion looks like this today:

[Heliodromus]

That's great!

Thanks, Lars.

Ben