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Nummus - Constans I VOT XX MVLT XXX, Nicomedia
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint, Nicomedia |
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| Year | 347-348 |
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| Currency | Solidus, Reform of Constantine (AD 310/324 – 395) |
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| Obverse lettering | D N CONSTANS P F AVG (Translation: Dominus Noster Constans Pius Felix Augustus: Our lord Constans, pious and blessed August.) |
| Reverse description | Votive inscription VOT XX MVLT XXX arranged in four lines within a laurel wreath, commemorating the twentieth vow of Constans and anticipating his thirtieth. The wreath is tied at the base and encloses the legend in a symmetrical, monumental fashion typical of mid-fourth-century imperial votive coinage. The mint mark SMNS appears in the exergue below the wreath, identifying the Nicomedia mint and its sixth officina. |
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The VOT XX MVLT XXX legend commemorates Constans reaching his twentieth regnal vow while anticipating his thirtieth — struck as part of the wider celebration of the Constantinian dynasty's decennalia and vicennalia issues of 347–348. Nicomedia had been one of Diocletian's preferred imperial residences and retained a productive mint well into the fourth century. These small bronze nummi represent the terminal shrinkage of Roman bronze coinage, reduced so aggressively from the large follis of Diocletian's reform that by this point the flan barely accommodated the design.