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Valued Member
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Ok, I've used your photo do-dad.... now the pix are up.
Comments appreciated.
regards, m
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Pillar of the Community
Italy
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First coin is an As of Emperor Augustus Caesar.
The second is of Constantine I.
Hope this helps.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Coin #2 is indeed Constantine the Great. See info here: http://www.coinproject.com/coin_det...p?coin=53744 SARMATIA DEVICTA reverse meaning "On the occasion of Sarmatia being conquered" I believe 'dad' actually sent his son Constantine II to run the campaign in Sarmatia that ultimately led to the killing of 100,000 Goths and the capturing of Ariaricus the son of the Goth king Edited by Biancasdad
03/25/2015 5:44 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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Ok.. so what does As stand for ( "First coin is an As of Emperor Augustus Caesar.")?
and ditto second coin's denom. of AE 3? If there's an faq on ancient coins a link would be much appreciated. Finally, what are the "rules" (I looked and found nothing prohibiting such) about asking what something is worth? Ok or no?
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Pillar of the Community
Italy
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Edited by Augustus Maximus
03/25/2015 6:01 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Spain
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Augustus (27 BC-AD 14). Æ as (27mm, 10.5 gm, APROX).
Rome, ca. AD 11-12 AD.
Obv: IMP CAESAR DIVI F AVGVSTVS IMP XX, bare head of Augustus left
Rev: PONTIF MAXIM TRIBVN POT XXXIIII around S C.
Ref: RIC 471.
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Valued Member
United States
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Thanks to all for the responses... so in measuring a Roman coin to ascertain "what" denom. it is, are you measuring from the greatest distances across? or the shortest? I ask as it seems they're usually oblong, slightly ovoid in profile due to the strike.
the larger (As?) is approx. 28.75 x 27.1mm. That would make it an AE1 no?
Edited by rynegold
03/31/2015 1:09 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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For the earlier imperial coins (at least through the 12 Caesars, possibly after that) the weight is more indicative of denomination than the width.
The Ae3, Ae2 etc denominations are what we classify coins as because we don't know what they were really called, but for the earlier coins (like your first) we do. Even for later coins if we know the denomination we call it by its proper name, like the follis.
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Pillar of the Community
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That is the USA costum...
In Spain we try to understand what coin was a centenionalis, or a reduced follis, or a nummus, or a decargyrus...
I can assure to you that we are getting absolutely mad...
..but we enjoy it!
jejeje
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Valued Member
United States
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Thanks chuy...
The large Augustus coin weighs 10.69 grams.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's the correct weight for an As of that time period.
Athalbert, do you have a link with some of the later denominations? Preferably in English, but my Spanish might be strong enough to figure it out.
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Pillar of the Community
Spain
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No, But...
It´s a good idea, I´ve finished my book so I think that perhaps I can do anything...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
513 Posts |
It's a very interesting subject that a lot of sources (the ones I've read anyway) sort of gloss over with 'we don't know what they were called so here's the system we use to name them now.' If there's more information out there that'd be really cool.
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Pillar of the Community
Spain
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Your sistem is good enought...
"I have no idea about the name of this coin, but their measures are..."
In Europe we were able to maintain a war between England and france for 116 years; our war to expell the moors from Spain lasted since 711 till 1492...
I think that perhaps we enjoy complicating things...
:D
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Of course, that particular USA custom originated in the writings of men like Humphrey Sutherland, R.A.G. Carson, John Kent and other editors of the RIC catalogs, LRBC and so on. Very British, would ya saye.
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