Third Brass of Alexandria with Constantinus II AD

Third Brass of Alexandria with Constantinus II AD

Bronze

Obv: Constantius II, laureate, draped. D.N.CONSTANTIVS P.F.AVG. Rev: Soldier despatching falling horseman with a spear. FEL.TEMP.REPARATIO ALEA Except where the design obtrudes, the legends on Constantius II coins are regularly in unbroken style. The action on the reverse is vivid and designed to fill the small, round surface available: the shape of the attacker curves with the coin. There is no formal posing. Constantius died of fever in 361, aged forty-five, after declaring his brother-in-law Julian his successor and sole master of the Empire.

Bronze, Minted in Alexandria

Transfered from the University of Queensland Library, Brisbane, 1979.

348 - AD 350

C.184