Folia archeologica 28.

Katalin Bíro-Sey: Római pénzek egykorú hamisítványai a Niklovits gyűjteményből

96 К. BÍRÓ-SEY Cat. No. 14 imitates a rare reduced follis of Constantine the Great, The original, as it can be deduced from the mintmarkof the counterfeit TÄ was struck at Thessalonica. On the obverse the inscription is quite legible: .. .CONSTANTINVS

. . ., with a helmeted bust of the emperor looking left, with spear and shield. The reverse is a copy after the type VOTXX/MVLT/XXX in wreath. The original coin might have been issued about 318-319.

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3 The obverse of a reduced follis of Constantine the Great is still recognizable on the copy Cat. No. 15: IMP CONSTANT

. . . with the helmeted head of the emperor looking right. The reverse was copied from a coin with the legend VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP and the pertaining representation, in exergue the mark TSIS. In the Siscia mint this type with a similar mark was issued about 318-320.

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4 The reduced follis with a similar reverse type, serving as a prototype for Cat. No. 16, was struck for a member of the family of Constantine the Great. On our copy both of the legends are quite unintellegible, neither the name of the emperor, nor the mintmark can be identified. This type was, in general, struck about 318-320 in different mints. A reduced follis with a similar reverse (Cat. No. 17) is, as for the emperor represented and the mint place, not identifiable either. It differs from the preceding ones in the obverse, where the helmeted head of the emperor looks left. The legend consists of unintellegible signs. The last item of the sequence (Cat. No. 18) is a reduced follis as well, on the obverse a head looking left. The reverse type is identical with the former one, the mintmark irrrecognizable. The original of the reduced follis (Cat. No. 19) was equally struck for a member of the Constantine dynasty; on the obverse the helmeted head of the emperor is looking right, the legend is mixed up, the reverse was made after the type VIRTVS EXERCIT but with an illegible legend. In exergue the mintmark SIS° is discernible. The original coins were issued at Siscia in 320.

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5 Also the prototype of a similar reduced follis (Cat. No. 20) was struck for a member of the Constantine dynasty. The reverse type is similar to the former one, on the obverse a laureate bust of the emperor with shield and spear, looking left, The mintmark is not decipherable. The originals of this type were coined in almost every mint office in the years 320 and 321.

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6 It cannot be stated, either, for which emperor the original of the reduced follis was struck, on the obverse of which the laureate head of the emperor looks right. (Cat. No. 21). Its reverse was, in all probability, copied from a reduced follis, type CAESARVM NOSTRORVM and VOT/V in wreath. In exergue the mintmark SIS- is well discernible. At Siscia this type was issued in 320, with VOT/V in field;

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7 the copies were struck somewhat later. Similarly for a member of the Constantine dynasty was struck the reduced follis of the reverse type VIR1

3 We conferred it with RIC VII. Pl. XV, Type 30. 1

4 Type VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP was generally struck in other mint offices as well as in Siscia between 318 and 320. 1

5 RIC VII. Siscia. 437- 441. 's RIC VII. 95-96. 1

7 RIC VII. Siscia. 442.