Helena, AE3, 325-326, Nicomedia, 18mm x 19mm, 2.90g.

FL HELENA-AVGVSTA, Pearl-diademed, mantled bust right, wearing 
pearl necklace, Magnia Urbica fashion hair style, diadem as broad 
band decorated with a single string of pearls
SECVRITAS-REIPVBLICE, Securitas standing facing, head left, branch downward in right hand, raising robe with left.
Mintmark MNS.

RIC VII, Nicomedia 129
Ex Beast Coins Roman Ladies Collection; Ex John Vander Weit Collection

Grade: Sharp EF/aEF, full silvering.
With permission of beastcoins.com Sep 19 2009.