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Follis - Constantius II GLORIA EXERCITVS, Antioch
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint, Antioch |
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| Year | 337-341 |
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| Weight | 1.7 g |
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| Obverse description | Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust of Constantius II facing right, wearing a pearl diadem with a crescent visible at the top of the head. The emperor's paludamentum is fastened at the right shoulder, and the cuirass is finely detailed. The encircling Latin legend reads CONSTANTIVS AVG, running clockwise around the periphery of the flan. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Constantius II inherited the eastern empire following the dynastic massacre of 337 AD, in which most of his male relatives were killed by soldiers — likely with his tacit approval, though he never admitted involvement. The GLORIA EXERCITVS type with two soldiers flanking two standards had already been introduced under Constantine I as a deliberate unification motif, binding army loyalty to the imperial image during a period of increasingly fractured command.
By the time Antioch struck this reduced-module issue, the earlier single-standard variant was already superseding it across most mints. RIC VIII 49 places this firmly in the transitional phase.