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Ancient European Copper Coin

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 Posted 06/03/2007  5:11 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add RangerXLT8 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
So this coin came as a free gift with a purchase of some Gold Eagles..And I have no idea what type of coin it is, besides that is is copper.




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 Posted 06/03/2007  6:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Susanlynn9 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I am not proficient enough in ancient coins to be able to help you with this one. Sap may recognize the portrait and be able to identify it that way. I rely a lot on the inscriptions and I can't read anything on this one.

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 Posted 06/03/2007  6:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like Constans 337-350 AD, reverse could be wreath with VOT? MVLT? too worn to really tell.

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 Posted 06/03/2007  7:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add RangerXLT8 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for the help. Kinda neat to think the coin is 1600 years old.
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 Posted 06/04/2007  06:37 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yup, definitely late Roman Empire, post-Constantine-the-Great. You can read ...NSTAN... to the left of the portrait, which could be either Constans or Constantine II. Unfortunately, it's the only legible marking I can read on that coin - I can't even find the exergue-line on the reverse to have a crack at the mintmark.
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I enclose with the theory of Sap: Vot- coins were distrubited in times that new emperors gain power in ancient Rome. Definitely Constans 1 'the Great'; lowest value of the currency line, 1 centionalis.
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