FAVSTA.
SPES REI PVBLICAE.
P crescent T
Ticinum
RIC rated rarity: R5
Comment: The coin as been tested with the Au Test and Ag Test, it's 40% gold, 60% silver more or less. I prefer to call this type of coin as a gold alloy one only because of the gold content showed by the Au Test Acid: very extremely high. To my opinion, it's not a normal gilded bronze. The coin didn't show CU content. The gilded bronzes obvioulsy show it, because, as the term explain, they're only gilt.
CONSTANTIVS I CHLORVS
GENIO POPVLI ROMANI
SISCIA
Test: Au Test, Ag Test
Comments: the coin is quite similar to the bronze examples. It's only very very thin and very very light in weight (about 1.2/1.3 gr). The coin as the others has been tested with the Au acid and with the Ag acid. It's an alloy of gold and silver, the only reference I've found is that this type of alloy was known as "or argental" usually about 40/50% gold and 60/50% silver. Didn't shows CU content. Even if there are no other known examples, this year have been discovered some imperial gilt bronzes. Usually experts thought about these coins as gilt bronzes. See the other coin listed for reference.
