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Thessalonica AD 320-324 billon centenionalis 2.89 g 1.82 cm 1.82 cm 12h

obverse: hd Constantinus r laureate CONSTANTINVS AVG
reverse: wreath VOT XX within D N CONSTANTINI MAX AVG
RCV IV 16221
Schulman Auction 282 lot 2925 (11/12) Nov 1985 vw 164, 7 euro

Constantine the Great (Flavius Valerius Constantinus) c 280 (Naissus - Moesia, now Nis, Serbia] 307-337
337 Died in Ancyrona, near Nicomedia - Bithynia, now Izmit -Turkey

Mint mark TS = Thessalonica
Officina mark: ε = 5
Value mark: VI (suggests "Constantine felt obliged to match the Licinian 6-scrupula standard of his folles")