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Arcadius, 383-408 AD. Æ Nicomeda mint 4.77 grams, 23 mm. Obverse: D N ARCADI-VSPPAVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right. Reverse: GLORIA ROMANORVM, Arcadius standing right, holding labarum and globe,*//SMNA in exergue. RIC IX 46b.2.   Edited by IndianGoldEagle
04/05/2013 1:33 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Definitely a nice Arcadius AE2. Your collection is starting to get really nice, IGE.
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We are getting close to the end of this thread. The remaining emperors are rare and extremely rare so we might not see many. Up next is Sebastianus, Constantius III, Johannes, and Valentinian III. Posting will end at 10 pm toworrow.
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Johannes   AE4 DN IOHANNES PF AVG VICTORIA AVGG S in left field RM RIC X ROME 1910 |
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I definitely don't have any of those.
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me either, but interested to see some.  |
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Echizento, nice coin but how are you able to tell it's johannes? I tried looking carefully at the obverse but I couldn't tell from the photo.
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VK, When I first found the coin I thought it was Avitus, but after some research and having it looked at by other collectors it was attributed to Johannes.
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It's really difficult to tell with those very late Roman coins. I wonder how some of these dealers manage to attribute them because they look as poorly manufactured as a lot of barbs at the time, and the legend is unreadable to non-existent. Some of them seem to go by the style of the portrait. Like, Johannes has a beard, etc. Sometimes I wonder how they attribute those Valentinian III coins as well.
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I wonder how some of these dealers manage to attribute them because they look as poorly manufactured as a lot of barbs at the time That's because most just guess and since they know coins of Val III, Johannes, etc. are scarce to rare, they label them as such. Same thing with a lot of barbarous 4th, 5th century Roman coins being described as Vandal. A few I know can be identified as Vandal on stylistic grounds but for the most part you can't tell for sure. |
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btw I'm envious of your Johannes echizento  Very cool! Can't wait to get my first one. |
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Thanks VK, This was found in an uncleaned lot that I had sitting in olive oil for over a year. It almost got overlooked because it had a lot of crud. But it cleaned up nicely, though it too a long time to do so.
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Joannes in an uncleaned lot?! Lucky son of a...
With all the various rarities and coins I've found, I doubt ill ever find soemthing as high up the list as Joannes.
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