Nummus - Constantius Gallus as Caesar FEL TEMP REPARATIO, Heraclea

Constantius Gallus was appointed Caesar in 351 by his cousin Constantius II, largely out of dynastic necessity — the emperor needed a reliable deputy for the East while he dealt with the usurper Magnentius in the West. The arrangement was uneasy from the start. Gallus ruled from Antioch with increasing brutality, executing officials and provoking enough outrage that Constantius summoned and had him killed in 354, leaving this Caesar's coinage a relatively compressed issue of just four years.

The Heraclea mint, one of the more productive eastern facilities of the period, assigned RIC VIII 91 to Gallus's FEL TEMP REPARATIO series — the same reverse type struck simultaneously across nearly every mint in the empire under Constantius II's unifying monetary program.