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 Posted 10/01/2017  07:54 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sel_69l to your friends list
By hook or crook, get a copy of
Late Roman Bronze Coinage (LRBC) (123 pages), by
Carson Hill & Kent.
Perhaps you may be able to get a copy from Spinks books, London. It may cost you around U.S. $50 or so.

Although a bit difficult to decipher, this book will provide most of the knowledge you may need regarding emperors, mints and officinae.

I managed to obtain a copy on personal advice, when I visited the
British Museum Coins and Medals Department, some years ago, with a specific need to look at Roman gold coins and Roman bronze coins.

Collecting and studying LRBC's (Late Roman Bronze Coins), is the ancient equivalent of collecting and studying LWC's (Lincoln Wheat Cents) !

Once you have fully attributed them, this collection should have a total value of around $5,000. You have to earn your money; there is some major work ahead of you!
Enjoy!
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 Posted 10/01/2017  07:55 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add WheatBackPenny to your friends list
Wow, congratulations! That is a very exciting thing to have happen!
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 Posted 10/01/2017  09:33 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add moxking to your friends list
Congratulations. That is a nice group. Obviously from different find sites. That will be a lot of fun to work through.
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 Posted 10/01/2017  10:34 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add antwerpen2306 to your friends list
It is not a god , but a goddess : Fortuna . Congratulations and keep that luck . albert
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 Posted 10/01/2017  5:03 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Arkie to your friends list
Or, if you prefer, St. Eligius

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 Posted 10/02/2017  12:33 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Archraz to your friends list
Wow! That's nuts. Congrats! At some point do give us a run down of what you ID in that hoard! Some of those have really piqued my curiosity.
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 Posted 10/03/2017  12:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pendrak to your friends list
OK here an update-

There are 484 coins not 486. Most have some type of desert patina. There are 18 Greek, 32 Byzantine, 9 Islamic, and 425 Romans.

The Romans- All are bronze. There are a few from the early Empire, some from the late 200s, some from the early 300s, then lots from Constantine and his family, and lots from mostly Eastern Emperors through Arcadius. Size is mostly AE3, then AE4, and quite a few AE2 size.

I was a bit disappointed with the number that had unreadable mint marks- about 20-25% but what can you expect for a dollar each. Most of the mints were Rome south and east. There are some Rome, a couple Carthage, and then the largest amount from Antioch followed by Constantinople, Nicomedia, Cyzicus, Heraclea, Thessalonica, and Alexandria.

I have scanned a few nice ones.
1. THEODORA. 16mm, 1.1 grams, RIC VIII 36, Constantinople.
Theodora AE follis. FL MAX THEODORAE AVG, Bust right in plain mantle & necklace / PIETAS ROMANA dot, Pietas facing, head right, carrying an infant; mintmark CONS epsilon.
2. CRISPUS. 18mm, 3.5 grams, RIC VII 240, Rome.
Crispus AE follis. CRISPVS-NOB CAES, laureate head right / CAESARVM NOSTRORVM around VOT X within wreath. Mintmark: RS.
3. JULIAN II. 21x24mm, 2.6 grams, RIC VIII 219, Antioch.
Julian II AE follis. DN FL CL IVLI-ANVS PF AVG, helmeted and cuirassed bust left holding spear and shield / VOT X MVLT XX, within wreath. Mintmark palm branch ANTDelta; palm branch.
4. JOVIAN. 18mm, 2.7 grams, RIC VIII 232, Antioch.
Jovian AE follis. DN IOVIAN-VS PF AVG, pearl diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right / VOT V MVLT X within wreath. Mintmark ANTA.
5. ARCADIUS. 19mm, 2.5 grams, RIC X 66, Cyzicus.
Arcadius AE3. D N ARCADI-VS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS-EXERCITI, emperor standing left, head right, holding spear and resting left hand on shield. Victory, standing beside him, crowns him with a wreath held in her right hand. Mintmark SMKA.

This should give me something to do for a while- Later-

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 Posted 10/03/2017  12:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jskirwin to your friends list
Based on the dates and mintmarks any guess to where they came from? Do you think it's a single hoard?
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 Posted 10/03/2017  2:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pendrak to your friends list
Is it a single hoard?

No probably not from the same place, but probably from the same region. I would guess Turkey or somewhere in the Middle East.
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 Posted 10/03/2017  8:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Mark1959 to your friends list
Those pictured have great eye appeal!
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 Posted 10/05/2017  12:58 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add MartiVltori to your friends list
Really nice bunch. Looks like quite a few ~10 dollar coins in there. I think you really took the previous owner for a ride.
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 Posted 10/05/2017  09:17 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Finn235 to your friends list
Nice lot there! I especially like the reverse on that Theodora - Can't say I've ever seen one so legible.
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 Posted 11/04/2017  04:03 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Director to your friends list
Oh wow! Congrats! Great haul!
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 Posted 11/04/2017  04:50 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add John1 to your friends list
pendrak,
I see you reached 50 posts,congrats
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 Posted 11/04/2017  10:24 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coinlover1899 to your friends list
That is really cool you got this hoard!

Congrats!
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