Help With Some Greek Un Cleaned Coins

Here is a picture of RIC IX Cyzicus 8b: http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=221917

Thanks for the thread link TJS, ill keep that in mind for future.

Update on the coin I wrecked: I've put it back in, to strip off all of the side which I felt was too far gone, but I have covered up the other side. Also, turns out, there is very little patina under the green, I tried patiently picking at it to no avail, as soon as I saw patina, it would be chipped off whilst working on the next splodge.

Still no indications as to who is on the coin. theres an HN on it though, so ill start investigating people with such odd pairings in their name.


UPDATE: While thats cleaning, I've been having a go at another coin which is in excellent condition. Two Soldiers, standard centre, the reverse shows Joannes, minted in Antioch. I still need to find the RIC ID and photograph it, so ill do that later.

FURTHER UPDATE: Cleaned up the 3/4 facign one to the point where I could Identify it. Honorius, reverse design is Concordia enthroned with sceptre holding a globe with victory standing atop it. I'm going to do RIC numbers for all identified later.

Fantastic news - I have finished cleaning on 7 coins! They will be soaked in Olive oil for 2 weeks to remove residual crud.

Anyway, time to try and ID all of those.

COIN 1:
Obverse:
Reverse:

Known Info: Two Soldiers, standard centre. Mint mark: (s)MA(Unknown letter)
Surviving inscript on obverse reads: (Unknown, maybe R)T(*) AVG

COIN 2:
Obverse:
Reverse:
Detail of the Left Soldiers face:

Known Info: Two Roman soldiers, standard. Inscription on reverse reads: GLO*I VS
Obverse reads: [AH]V AVG (Not totally certain on this, the first two letters in square brackets could be different).
Mint mark SHANT - Antioch.

COIN 3:
Obverse:
Reverse:

Known Info: Inscription Reads GLORIA ROMANORVM on reverse, obverse reads: SPF AVG. Emperor dragging a rather fat captive by the hair.
Minted in Cyzicus

COIN 4:
Obverse:
Reverse:

Known info: Honorius, Concordia seated with Victory on globe.Minted Cyzicus. Reads CONCORDIA AVGG and DNH HONORORIVS AVG. This is my favourite so far as its neat, 3/4 facing and shows that the romans knew the world was a sphere.

COIN 5:
Obverse:
Reverse:

Known info: Legend unreadable, cross with person and captive.

COIN 6:
Obverse:
Reverse:

Known info: Not Roman, most likely Celteberian. Mint mark is childish in nature and reads SH, with bad kerning.

COIN 7:
Obverse:
Reverse:

Known info: I fear this to be a junk, cant make sense at all of the back and the face is worse. No legend survives.

BONUS COIN (8#):
This is the double bust coin I wrecked, but as more patina comes off, more detail shows through! Lettering that had so hint of being there when I got to the patina came up and the faces have gained eyes and hair.
BUST A:
BUST B:

Known info: Zilch. letters that are readable are: Bust A, to the right of bust, O(funnylookingE)ON.
Bust B: MHN, the the right of bust, O(funnylookingE)

Your bonus coin is very interesting. Bust number one looks like it could be Augustus and bust 2 looks female, perhaps Livia. If so very rare; however, I can't locate a coin that looks like this. I will keep looking.

Thanks JWHarper (also, how does your name break down? J W Harper? J Wharper?) but it doesn't look like it I'm afraid.

The measurements are: 18mm Diameter. Thickness away from the bust is jsut over 2mm with a thinkness of nearly 4mm at the centre (due to the protusion of the busts). Ill weigh it and edit this post in a second, but I can only measure to within 2g and the patina being removed may have lightened it. It came out as 4g on the scale, so its heavier than 3g and lighter than 5g. Not much help really...

And all other coins in the batch are late 300s and early 400s AD.

EDIT: Just a thought, could it be a die mismatch?

My god I didnt expect this when I got it. Every other coin has been similar era... Ill try searching google using the image rather than the text.

I really do appreciate the help by the way - and I will be IDing this if It means building a time machine and asking a roman mint official personally.

Ill be honest, everytime I look at the coin, my mind changes on their genders. Bust A looks a lot more female, hair and scarf around shoulders. Bust B looks a lot more...regal, like they're are wearing a laurel reath. Either way, one is male, one is female.

Im going to guess at some unreadable letters on the bust A, to the left. KAHJ*squigglewhichisn'treadablebutisgenerallyrounded*H (maybe K)

That makes KAHJ*H or KAHJ*K

(edited for unforgivable spelling mistake)

Hold on! I just looked at several coins of Livia and Julia and they look very similar to this one. I reckon if I could work out the legend, it would help attribute the coin. I'm leaning towards 'not roman language'. Is there a resident expert for ancient languages?

Okay, incase one wanders by:
For Greek character, ill just put them in angle brackets.
MHN (the bust) <theta><epsilon>(not legible)

Reverse:
(maybe pi, looks like the bottom half of an X)AH(possible T)(possible H)H (the bust) <theta><epsilon>ONC*(Y or V)(not legible)

MHN θε******
XAH** θεONCY*

*This is odd, because no greek characters look like C...