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Contributor: Classical Numismatic Group.
Issuer: CONSTANTINE II, AD 337-340. AE Follis (2.87 gm). Struck 330/1 AD.
Obverse: CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C, his laureate and cuirassed bust facing right.
Reverse: GLORIA EXERCITVS, two soldiers facing one another, holding reversed spear and resting hand on shield; between them are two standards; PLG below.
Reference: RIC VII 244 Lyon mint (Lugdunum). Grade: EF.
Comments: For more information, read the "Constantine II" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on the family of Constantine see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.