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504 SIR ARTHUR EVANS.
A prima facie case, and to a limited extent a good
case, may indeed be made out for regarding the certain
mint-marks on coins of Constantine the Third as having
reference to the British mint with the restored name
of Londinium. A parallel for this might be found,
moreover, on the G-allic issues where AR for Arelate
alternates with abbreviations of Constantina the
almost universal monetary form since the middle of
the fourth century, and adhered to on the coinage
of Honorius. On Constantino's siliquae we find the
exergual lettering SMLD and LDPV (PL XX, Fig. 18). 11::
The letters L-D also appear in the field of one of his
solidi bearing the exergual inscription COMOB. 114
The regular abbreviation for the Lyons mint on
the exergue is LVG or LVCD, and in certain cases
this was adhered to on the coinage of Constan-
tine III himself. A rare gold solidus of his bears the
inscription SMLVC 115 in this position, and a small
bronze piece LVCP. 116
The centres of Constantino's activity were however
so much on the Continental side that, in default of
clearer evidence, it seems nevertheless safest to assign
these types with LD to the Lyons mint. In the field, at
least, this was the natural abbreviation for Lugdunum,
113 B.M. Collection; Rev. VICTORIA AA V COG. From the
Coleraine hoard (Num. Chron., 1855, p. 115), there were two
specimens with similar reverses. The abbreviation PV for
PV[SVLATVM] is also found on Constantine's Milan siliquae
of this type (Cohen, viii, p. 199, No. 7).
114 Cohen, viii, p. 199, No. 5. A solidus of this type from the
Eye find is in my own collection.
115
Cohen, viii, p. 198, No. 1. Eev. RESTITVTOR REIPVB-
LICAE (Freiburg Museum).
116
Op. cit., p. 199, No. 3. Rev. VICTORIA AVGGG- "M.
Recamier. P. B. Q."