CONCORDIA AVGG (408 / 420)

Bust of Theodosius II facing, cuirassed, wearing helmet with crest and a pearl diadem. Holding a spear passing behind his head with the right hand and a decorated shield with the left hand. Shield decorated with a victory facing and holding a wreath in each hand.

Constantinopolis seated on a throne with her head to the right, holding a scepter with her right hand and a globe surmounted by a victory with her left hand. Her right foot placed on a prow. 

Photo of a coin sold on 09 January 2007 by Classical Numismatic Group, Triton X, lot 810, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=351547, link to their website: https://www.cngcoins.com/. Source: collection Marc Poncin. It is the copy sold on 18 May 2004 by Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 120, lot 600. Since the sale Triton X of 2007, Classical Numismatic Group sold the coin twice: 06 January 2009, Triton XII, lot 792 and 16 January 2013, Electronic Auction 294, lot 808.

Another coin:

Photo of a coin sold on 15 March 2006 by Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Aution 135, lot 252, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=285459, link to their website: https://www.cngcoins.com/. Note the variations of decoration on the bust between the coin illustrating the AYC #10, RIC 349 and this coin illustrated just above.

Two other coins has been sold. The first has been sold on 10 March 2003 by Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 122, lot 2305, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=124974. The second coin has been sold on 02 April 2001 by Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 107, lot 627, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=79182.

Series with COMOB mark. Variant with shield decorated with a victory facing and holding a wreath in each hand.

I followed the weight of 4.45 grs given during the last sale by Classical Numismatic Group, while the old sales gave 4.44 grs. Considering that the scale was perhaps more accurate on this date.

I note that no coin that I could see has a jewel on the diadem. There are at least 3 obverse dies and same number of reverse dies. The coin sold on 10 March 2003 par Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 122, lot 2305, shares the same obverse die as the coin illustrated in the RIC X, plate 15, n°349 (sources given by the RIC X: London British Museum and Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna, the RIC X does not specify the provenance of the photo). The coin from Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung shares the same reverse die as the coin sold in its sale of the 07 March 2011, Auction 96, lot 3052. The coin having a different obverse die from the other examples mentioned. We find the same two dies on the copy sold on 15 June 2006 by Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 135, lot 252. Finally, the copy sold on 02 April 2001 by Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 107, lot 627 has dies different from all the other coins mentioned.

These coins from this mint all seem to have a spear depicted without a tip.