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Edited by CanadianCollector
08/15/2012 10:26 pm
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Glad to see another dip their toes into the waters of ancients collecting  Yup it is indeed Constantinus II and has the soldier spearing enemy horseman reverse. Not sure how you or the dealer came up with ASIS since most of the exergue (bottom center on the reverse, where the mintmark is located) is worn down and gone, although I see what looks like an N. Price-wise you didn't do bad, but it wasn't a bargain either IMO. BTW it is WAY older than 800 years old, try a little over 1600  Edited by VisigothKing
08/15/2012 10:10 pm
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Congratulations on your first ancient coin and welcome to ancient coin collecting. Now that you have one your hooked and will be wanting more. Your coin is Constantius II and is know as the Fallen Horseman, this series first appeared circa 348 AD and was used by several emperors. The reverve legend is FEL TEMP REPARATIO (Happy times restored). The ASIS is where the coin was minted, in this case Siscia.
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Thanks for pointing out that it is 1600 years old and not 800  . I completely messed up some really simple math!  Thanks for replying. |
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 Great falling horseman! Congrats! Ancients rock, don't they! |
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Like ValientKnight I can't make out the mintmark. It could very well be SIS for Siscia or modern day Siska, Croatia. The $10 was not bad at all, but once you start hunting down these coins, you'll do much better than that. Aren't these coins fascinating? Here is one of mine of Constantius II from Siscia:  |
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Congrats and |
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I don't see the ASIS on the OP coin. A combination of the S in the reverse field and style might allow someone to ID the mint but I'd just call it a generic Falling Horseman unless you want to put in the legwork to search the lists for possibilities.
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Nice coin at a good price.
I think it is definately not Siscia though. Perhaps Antioch or Heraclea but very hard to tell.
Edited by MartiVltori
08/16/2012 12:31 am
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I'd look at that S in the left field. That should narrow it down a bit. I know that Constantinople and Rome coins of this type had that. Definitely not Rome (RQ) It might be Constantinople but there might be other mints that had the S Left also. I only did a cursory search.
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=> CanadianCollector Nice Fallen Horseman coin ... congrats!! Hey, it's gonna be nice having someone else from Canada to talk with ... yup, at times I find it fairly difficult to understand these USA accents, dja know what I mean, eh? Advice => have fun and listen to everyone but stevex6 |
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....CanadianCollector.... Nice start to your collection, I think you'll find some great folks here, good luck..... 
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I just finished checking Helvetica's list of the Fallen Horseman type for Constantius II. The only mints that struck with an "S" in the left field were Rome, Alexandria, Antioch and Heraclea. The style seems all wrong for Rome and I believe I see the "N" that ValiantKnight mentioned. So I have narrowed it down to possibly Antioch. Since the fallen horseman does not look to be reaching back, but instead looks to be clutching the horse's neck, I will presume this to be Antioch RIC VIII 150. Take a look at the image on wildwinds: http://wildwinds.com/coins/ric/cons...viii_150.jpg |
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I must worn the new ancient collector.....Ancient coin collecting is a slippery slope, as many can attest. You start with one, you will NEVER have them all no matter how hard you try, but you will in the end have thousands of them. Ancient coins, so old, so historic,...so sexy...I live for them.
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to ancients CC, it beats the pants off all other areas of coin collecting  |
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