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Constantine II, as Caesar, BI Mule Nummus. Utilising the reverse of a Constantinopolis City Commemorative issue. Uncertain mint (Aquileia?), after AD 321. CONSTANTINV[S IVN NOB C], pearl-diademed and cuirassed bust to right / Victory standing to left on prow, holding transverse sceptre and resting hand on shield; uncertain mintmark in exergue. Chapmanslade CHRB X 616 (this coin); for obv., cf. RIC VII 77 (Aquileia); for rev., cf. RIC VII 123 (Aquileia); for similar mule examples from different mints, cf. CNG E-515, lot 660 & CNG E-503, lot 487. 1.00g, 16mm, 6h.
Very Fine; edge chips. Very Rare.
This coin published in R. Bland, R. Hobbs & J. Williams. "Chapmanslade" in Coin Hoards from Roman Britain, Vol. X (London: British Museum Press, 1997);
From the Chapmanslade Hoard;
From the inventory of a UK dealer.
This hoard was discovered by metal detectorists on 18 January 1993 in Chapmanslade in Wiltshire. It comprised of over 5,000 coins and was found near Chalcot House, the find site of another hoard of late Roman coins discovered in the early 1970s.
Though the mintmark has been obliterated, this cataloguer posits that the style of the obverse and reverse types seen here is of Aquileia.
Very Fine; edge chips. Very Rare.
This coin published in R. Bland, R. Hobbs & J. Williams. "Chapmanslade" in Coin Hoards from Roman Britain, Vol. X (London: British Museum Press, 1997);
From the Chapmanslade Hoard;
From the inventory of a UK dealer.
This hoard was discovered by metal detectorists on 18 January 1993 in Chapmanslade in Wiltshire. It comprised of over 5,000 coins and was found near Chalcot House, the find site of another hoard of late Roman coins discovered in the early 1970s.
Though the mintmark has been obliterated, this cataloguer posits that the style of the obverse and reverse types seen here is of Aquileia.