FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust left / PROVIDENTIAE CAESS, camp gate with two turrets and star above. Mintmark PLON. 20mm, 3.50 grams. London mint. Cohen 167, RIC VII London 298.

Ex-Dr. Malcolm Lyne Collection, with a note that the coins are from the Appleford Hoard (The Appleford Hoard was found on New Year’s Eve 1954 by a farmer ploughing a field between Sutton Courtenay and Appleford, Berkshire. The hoard was made up of 5,736 bronze coins and 16 debased silver coins and its original owner buried it sometime after 350. It was spotted when the farmer’s plough struck the top of one of the two grey earthenware pots in which the 3rdcentury Roman inhabitant of Berkshire had buried the hoard. One pot contained over 1,650 Constantinian issues from 320-326; all but about
100 of them were struck in London. The other pot contained almost 4,000 coins, most struck in Trier (now in Germany) after 335.