Need Help To ID Roman Copper Coins I Found At Relic Site

is there a way to post images larger than 100k on here? I would like to share my stuff,

but I'm really haumstrung trying to show you pics with that MB count... thanks!

I got some new ones here...cleaned...can see a LOT more now! :)

Only difference I see are the legs are a bit different? also this might help narrow it down as well since they are clearer, this is the first I have seen of them up close in pics after being cleaned...

http://metaldetectingforum.com/show...#post1900276

Ancient coins are hand cut by many different hands - the examples you'll find online might be limited to a single coin in many cases but there were many many die cutters at each mint. Some hand their own motifs and variations - legs facing the other way, various fibuli and things. You'd be lucky to find an exact match (my main collecting aim in romans is to find a die match of a certain coin).

If oyu look at a lot of examples from a certain mint, or issue depending on how that mint ran, you'll be able to spot a diecutter's work or be able to tell the issuing mint from a coin which is missing its legend. I can do that for Heraclean campgates (most of them, you do find some weird ones).

EDIT: You'll need to upload images to an external site and use the IMG tags to put them here.

From the pictures I could see, it looks like you've removed the patina - Id get started trying to retone those - theres various methods to do that, the best being to leave them on a windowsil and turn them occasionally (every few weeks). It wont return the patina or remove the pitting, but the bright copper colour will dull.

Congratulations on your fun find! I wonder why they were discarded; tend to agree with Pish on the reason. Perhaps they were purposefully planted to provide some future digger with a little excitement.

I don't see why those photos can't be made less than 100k. There's no need to have higher than ~72 pixels per inch for display on a computer screen and these tiny photos (consisting mostly of background) and pre-existing blurriness should not be adversely affected by dropping the resolution.

If you don't have a capable photo editor such as Photoshop Elements, try using this forum's photo optimizer. You should be able to make a *very* large photo (dimension-wise) while still maintaining adequate resolution. Did you click on the link provided when you got the CCF error message saying that photos must be less than 100 kb?

http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/....asp#600,600

Here is an example of a much larger picture that is still less than 100kb:

Does the below still apply Ben?

thanks....

"The top one reads DN CONSTANTIVS PF AVG and was produced between 337-361, this one being in later style so towards the end of the reign.

The bottom one reads FL CL IVLIANVS P F AVG or DN CL IVLIANVS NOB CAES (or something to that effect, variations exist for both) and was between 361-363"