Costanzo II (337-361) Solido - Busto elmato di fronte - R/ Roma e Costantinopoli sedute - RIC 291 AU (g 4,37) Ex Roma Numismatics, 21, 2021, lotto 770 (realizzo di 2.800 GBP) con questa nota: Ex Numismatica Ars Classica AG, Auction 98, 12 December 2016, lot 1459; Ex Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 46, 28 November 1988, lot 703. This is one of the first frontal portraits that portray the emperor with a helmet, holding a spear and a shield. This iconographical format would later come to dominate the solidus issues of the later Roman and ‘Byzantine’ coinage.
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