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Buy or Bid Sale 218  10 Feb 2022
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Lot 253

Estimate: 300 USD
Price realized: 300 USD
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Constantine I. AE 3, Reduced Follis; Constantine I; 307-337 AD, Constantinople, 328 AD, Reduced Follis, 3.33g. RIC-32, officina B=2 (r3). Obv: CONSTANTI - NVS MAX AVG Head r. wearing rosette diadem, looking upwards. Rx: CONSTANTINI - ANA DAFNE Victory seated l., head r., on cippus, holding laurel branch and palm branch and placing foot on kneeling captive, trophy behind captive, CONS in exergue, officina letter B in l. field. Scarce type. The upward-looking, divinely-inspired portrait of Constantine and the diadem rather than laurel wreath that he wears had been introduced together on the coins about four years before our piece was struck, c. 324 AD, according to Bruun, RIC VII, p. 44. On the reverse the branch that Victory holds in her right hand is clearly different, perhaps laurel, than the palm branch she holds in her left hand. Both branches are wrongly called palms by Cohen 89 and RIC pp. 574-5.. MS
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