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Can you read the letters on the reverse?
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VK - 5 letters and REI - which makes it SALVS REI - PUBLICAE
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Did a little searching around and narrowed it down to the following emperors: Theodosius I, Honorius, Arcadius, or Valentinian II. No mintmark left so I can't give an RIC #.
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VK - Great! Ill label it up and investigate surviving legend. D N Survives to the left, before the big break. One other letter should be IDable and I fancy I could get something off the other side. Ill try some lighting tactics and see if I can get it off.
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...I'm currently trying to get a mint mark off of the Theodosius but I'm not getting any matches.  difficult one, the SM is clear but then hard to say, can you rule out any of the following in hand? SMA SMR SMH SMK SMN |
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Just to add, I've looked at the styles of the Aquileia, Rome, Heraclea, Cyzicus, and Nicomedia and it wasn't much help. The diameter could help, maybe |
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Bobby - this is my problem exactly. I have tried various combinations and just cant find a match for it. I may have to completely remove the crud on the coin to find it.
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Well, probably only a small help but if the coin looks like it was 13mm or less when it was made you can rule out Rome and Aquileia. If its 14mm or bigger you can rule out all the others. Good luck!
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Here is one of mine, more to follow later.   Johannes 423-425 DN IOHANNES PF AVG VICTORIA AVGG S in left field RM- Rome mint RIC X 1910 |
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Here are a few more.   Arcadius DN ARCADIVS PF AVG CONCORDIA AVGG CONSA RIC CONSTANTINOPLE 85   Arcadius AE2 DN ARCADIVS PF AVG GLORIA ROMANORVM SMHB RIC IX HERACLEA 22   Theodosius II AE4 THEODOSIVS PF AVG CROSS SMK RIC X 449 |
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Sorry for the late compliments, but nice coins echizento! I know at least most of you all have seen both but just thought I'd update my thread with my two latest acquisitions from this era: Western Roman EmpireValentinian III (reigned 425-455 AD; coin minted 425-435 AD) Rome mint  Ostrogothic KingdomTheodahad (Reigned 534-536 AD) Rome mint  Edited by VisigothKing
01/08/2013 9:40 pm
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All very nice late Roman coins!
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Great read, I enjoyed this thread and learned something new.
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Just so you know if you don't already. Coins of this era are really badly manufactured and didn't hold up well over the centuries. I sometimes wonder what kind of people they hired to make those coins.
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Coins of this era are really badly manufactured and didn't hold up well over the centuries. And scarce to downright nearly impossible to find I'd like to add (for those that don't know already), especially the coins of the post-Roman Germanic kingdoms, like my Theodahad I just posted. |
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