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Contributor: Clay Dorminey.
Issuer: CONSTANTIUS II, AD 337-361. AU Solidus (4.56g). Struck AD 347-355.
Obverse: FL IVL CONSTANTIVS PERP AVG; Diademed draped cuirassed bust right.
Reverse: GLORIA REI PVBLICAE; Roma and Constantinopolis seated holding shield inscribed VOT XX MVLT XXX; in exergue, SMANA.
Reference: RIC VIII 81, Antioch mint, officina a. Grade: mint.
Comments: For more information, read the "Constantius 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.