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Follis - Constantius I GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Siscia
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 305-306 |
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| Value | Nummus / Follis (1/4) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Constantius I (Chlorus) facing right, depicted with characteristic late Roman imperial portraiture. The effigy displays a draped and cuirassed bust, with the laureate wreath rendered in bold relief. The encircling Latin legend runs clockwise from lower left around the periphery of the flan. The coin exhibits a beaded border typical of Tetrarchic-era folles struck at the Siscia mint. |
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| Obverse lettering | IMP C CONSTANTIVS PF AVG (Translation: IMP C CONSTANTIVS P F AVG IMPerator Caius CONSTANTIuS Pius Felix AuGustus The emperor Caius Constantius pious, fortunate, august) |
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Constantius I died at Eboracum — modern York — in July 306, making his sole reign as Augustus barely a year long after Diocletian's abdication. Coins struck at Siscia during this window are chronologically tight, produced between May 305 and the summer of 306. The Siscia mint was one of the most productive of the Tetrarchic period, reorganized under Diocletian's monetary reforms of 294 AD which introduced the follis denomination itself.
RIC V.2 167 is not a rare type, but the brevity of Constantius's Augustan reign keeps the production window narrow.