The FEL TEMP REPARATIO ("happy times are here again") series was launched in 348 AD to mark the 1,100th anniversary of Rome's founding, producing one of the most prolific bronze issues in all of Roman coinage. The Constantinopolis mint struck enormous quantities during Constantius II's sole rule following the defeat of the usurper Magnentius at Mursa in 351 — a battle so catastrophically bloody that contemporaries blamed it for fatally weakening Rome's frontier defenses for generations. With Magnentius crushed, Constantius flooded the western mints as well, making this a genuinely empire-wide issue.
RIC VIII 116 corresponds to the fallen horseman type, the most common of the FEL TEMP subtypes but still worth distinguishing by officina mark.
The FEL TEMP REPARATIO ("happy times are here again") series was launched in 348 AD to mark the 1,100th anniversary of Rome's founding, producing one of the most prolific bronze issues in all of Roman coinage. The Constantinopolis mint struck enormous quantities during Constantius II's sole rule following the defeat of the usurper Magnentius at Mursa in 351 — a battle so catastrophically bloody that contemporaries blamed it for fatally weakening Rome's frontier defenses for generations. With Magnentius crushed, Constantius flooded the western mints as well, making this a genuinely empire-wide issue.
RIC VIII 116 corresponds to the fallen horseman type, the most common of the FEL TEMP subtypes but still worth distinguishing by officina mark.