Having Trouble Iding This Canstantine Sol

I can't help you much with the ID of your present coin,

but I was wondering if this coin is similar to it and the ones you have been discussing.

It's described as being a London mint but I don't see a mint mark.

I agree Jango, it looks like ST and maybe 2 characters before that - which would indicate Ostia

The field marks look very much like AS - which would indicate Trier and (less likely) Lyon

Sol standing right and looking left would indicate Arles

The bust could be from Rome, Arles or Trier, maybe a few more!

The problem is none of these things tie-in. If I had to guess I'd say Arles - but it would be unknown with AS in the fields! The mintmark would have to be something like ARLGamma?

I'm very, very confused echizento.





That is indeed from the same series of coins Doucet. Its not from London though, its from Rome 313-314. It has unfortunately lost all of its mintmark, rather cleanly too, it would have been 'R' or 'R*' followed by P/S/T/Q for the workshop. It is quite an odd coin to be honest as the style of it is certainly a little 'London' and not the typical 'Rome' style.

The 'RF' field marks were only used in Rome so I can only guess that its the 'off' bust style and cleanly missing minkmark that has caused it to be listed as a London coin. Its certainly an interesting one.

Yeah - its not an exact science but the more and more coins you see the more your able to guess as to the mint. I've been obsessed (not sure why) with these Constantine Sols for a while now and its amazing what subtle differences you can pick up on when you look at enough examples. I didn't even consciously do it - it just kind of 'sank in'.

This is where it starts to get confusing - while I agree with a lot of that attribution JW on my coin Sol is 'standing right looking left' the only Lyons coins with Sol in this way have 'SF' in the fields.

I'm toying with it being RS ARLGamma and perhaps Arles 110 or 138. But, even though Roman 'R's often looked like 'A's mine looks far more like 'A' or even Delta than any other I've seen.

I dont know much about mules but could it be one of these, maybe even just a straight up error. I've just checked Not in RIC and found nothing so its not a known rarity or omission from RIC.

Coin not in hand till later this week unfortunately! Hopefully then I can shed a bit more light on the situation.

At least I'm not the only one confused now It would be nice to get a 'Not in RIC', like yours, but I wont get my hopes up as 99.99% of the time you get the coin in hand and it turns out to be something normal.

I bought another gamble coin today - think I'll post that one another day when its quiet. Thanks for looking

Wrong link. Try this:

http://www.acsearch.info/images/50/494785.jpg

JW

I enhanced your picture some and it is clearly AS. The last three letters of the mint mark appears to be RST.