RIC VII, SISCIA [after 229], CONSTANTINE I, UNLISTED BUST TYPE

OBVERSE	ANEPIGRAPHIC (no legend); head r. with pearl-diadem, looking upwards [E6].
REVERSE	CONSTAN-TINVSAVG [CONSTANTINVS AVG]; Victory advancing l., holding wreath and palm branch. SIS in exergue.
NOT IN RIC	UNLISTED BUST TYPE - E6. RIC lists for this type only bust E4 [SISCIA 210; plain diadem] (p. 452) and bust E5 [SISCIA 229; rosette-diadem] (p. 455). Note that Constantine looks very young and it could be questionable if there is a portrait of Constatntine I or Constatntine II. Similar types are listed in RIC VIII for Constantine II [SISCIA 53-55], but see note on p. 353: "These pieces may belong to Constantine I". See also Bruun's opinion aboute similar issue from Rome: addenda to p. 343, no. 377 on p. 714. See also CORRIGENDA, VOL. VII, p. 452. Coin could be listed after SISCIA 229.

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Siliqua. Weight 3.18 g; diameter 18 mm. Offered on NUMISMATIK LANZ auction in May 2004. Now in Brent Upchurch's collection. Other specimens: - specimen from Bellinger, A. R., Bruun, P., Kent, J. P. C., Sutherland, C. H. V., "Late Roman Gold and Silver Coins at Dumbarton Oaks: Diocletian to Eugenius", Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol. 18 (1964), p. 179, no. 45; weight 3.045 g [click for picture]. See Bruun's opinion there: "The pearl diadem suggests Constantine II as Augustus, but the short hair on the nape of the neck indicates Constantine I". Note also that the specimen from Dumbarton Oaks is cited in RIC VII as SISCIA 229 (p. 455), i.e. as with rosette-diadem (sic!).