28 Weeks: 28 Centuries Of Coins

Back home , so here my coins for this century.
My 2 nicest coins for this period ;
Gold solidus of 23 Siliquae , Constantinople .
Maurice Tiberius : 582 - 602 .
Sear 481.






Gepids in Sirmium ,
imitative AR siliqua in the name of Anastasius (491-518) by Theodoric (491 - 526) , struck before 518 .
cfr Wroth,p58,78 .







tomorrow other coins for the other centuries,albert

I seem to have misplaced my early Byzantine coins into my backlog baggie.

Here's another little puzzler like the last one

Unknown, probably Germanic, ca. 450-550
AE4 imitating Roman cross / CONCORDIA AVGGG type

Bust left (no legend)
Cross potent, partial legend





No Roman emperor from this period ever made a bronze coin with a left-facing bust, and only a few uncommon Byzantine silver coins used a left facing bust. Couldn't find this one in Wroth's catalog of Vandalic coins, so it might be local or an unlisted type.

Here's my sad Maurice Tiberius half-follis.

582-602, Constantinople Mint




Just barely survived electrolysis cleaning.

This type is sometimes said to be "the last pagan Roman coin". If true, this would more precisely refer to the Justinian version of the same type, which I do not have; both of my examples are from the previous emperor, Justin I.

One of them has a weird center dimple on both sides (perhaps a patinated-through ancient hole); here is the other...



Justin I (518-527), pentanummium (5 nummi), Antioch mint.

DN IVSTINVS PF AV, portrait of Justin I right/Tyche seated, river god Orontes swimming below, reverse epsilon upper left, all in a temple (note: I'm not very confident of the reverse description).

Apparently this is a very very good obverse condition for this type (nearly fully readable legend, nice portrait details). Not very good reverse though (even my other example is better).

I have a few other 6th century pentanummiums (pentanummia? pentanummii? OED is silent on the plural of "pentanummium", because it doesn't have the singular either), and lately a few 6th century Byzantines in other denominations (that I hadn't taken photos of yet).
I also have coins from the 5th, 4th, 3rd and 1st centuries AD (all of them Roman); can't recall if I have anything I can confidently attribute to the 2nd century. (But that reminds me, I really should take photos of my Roman provincial - it's very worn, so I can't identify it myself, but I think there should be enough letters remaining that someone here might be able to identify.)

Might as well post my other photographed 6th century coin...



Anastasius I, pentanummium (5 nummi), 498-518 (sometimes said to be 513-518, and I think I've seen another version somewhere).
Very patinated coin which I mostly can't read; Anastasius attribution is entirely due to seller.

I'm not even sure what the mint is - though I suspect Antioch given the patina (and the supposedly Syrian origin of the bargain bin this coin came from).

Kicking off the 5th century

Roman Empire
Theodosius II
Struck 404-406
DN THEODOSIVS PF AVG
CONCORDIA AVGGG (Harmony of the Augustii), Cross
Heraclea mint? (SMHA - possibly SMKA)




Not a rare coin, but very tough to find in an even somewhat acceptable condition, let alone with full legends and mintmark.

They actually continued to make them throughout the 6th century. So, it could be someone else, possibly Justinian?

Here's one from the Byzantine Empire, when it was considered "the Eastern part of Rome" still

Marcian
450-457
AE4 (nummus?)
MXRS monogram in wreath





Marcian is famous for leaving Rome high and dry while it was being sacked by the Vandals; he had more important matters to attend to.