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Follis - Constantius II FEL TEMP REPARATIO, Antioch
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint, Antioch |
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| Year | 350-355 |
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| Weight | 2.61 g |
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| Reverse description | A helmeted Roman soldier advancing to the left, shield on his left arm, thrusting a spear with his right hand downward at a falling horseman. The enemy rider is depicted diademed and bearded, toppling from his horse and turning upward with his left arm extended in a gesture of supplication. A shield lies on the ground to the right of the composition. The reverse legend FEL TEMP REPARATIO is distributed across the field, with the mint mark occupying the exergue. The scene is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse lettering | FEL TEMP REPARATIO (Translation: Fel (-icium) Temp (-orum) Reparatio : `Happy times are restored`.) |
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The FEL TEMP REPARATIO ("happy times are returning") coinage was launched empire-wide in 348 AD to mark the eleven-hundredth anniversary of Rome's founding, flooding every mint with vast quantities of small bronze. Antioch was among the most productive of those mints, and the issues from this particular window — 350 to 355 — were struck under the shadow of Magnentius's usurpation in the west, which forced Constantius II to fight a civil war while simultaneously holding the Persian frontier on the Euphrates.
RIC VIII 153 is the fallen horseman type, the most common of the series, produced in such numbers that die quality deteriorated rapidly across the run.