à reclasser (type II, A) (441 / 450) Comitatus mint

Bust of Theodosius II facing, cuirassed, wearing a helmet with crest and a pearl diadem. Holding a spear passing behind his head with the right hand and a decorated shield with a horseman slaying an enemy, with the left hand.

Constantinople seated left on a throne, holding a spear with the left hand and a globe surmounted by a cross with the right hand. A shield behind the throne and a star in the field to the left.

One coin sold the 20/11/2016 by Numismatik Naumann, Auction 48, lot 672, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3483222.

Mark COMOB. to confirm.

This coin corresponds to RIC X 321. This RIC X 321 probably does not exist, but in doubt, I still created a number awaiting confirmation. The copy illustrating here this AYC #23, RIC 321 is given by the auction house as being with the COMOB mark. But the mark is erased and nothing seems to confirm one mark more than another. Perhaps the auction house was able to better distinguish something with the coin in hand. RIC X 321 gives a source and illustrates a coin that is not the coin from the source. The coin from the source is of another type with variant A (the leg is not a triangular protuberance, the lettering is wider and the legend ends after the shield on the reverse). Again, the copy illustrating this RIC X 321 is of the same type as the source copy but with variant B. The copy being the source of the RIC X 321 is a coin sold the 28/11/1975 by Franck Sternberg, lot 532 (note from catalogue: ''Aus Auktion Leu 2 (1972), 468''.).

Type I: with mark CONOB or COMOB (CONOB here) and the reverse legend usually ending before the shield. No punctuation on legend either side. A square throne, the right leg as a triangular protuberance, stiff drapery and vertical scepter. This corresponds to type III of RIC X. Var A is the same as RIC X: elongated and long shield.

See AYC #21, RIC 323: https://www.all-your-coins.com/en/archives-anciennes/romaines-imperiales/imp-xxxxii-cos-xvii-p-p-type-i-a-441-450, for the commentary explaining the entire coinage.