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I Need Help Identifying Roman/Ancient Coins

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 Posted 05/26/2015  11:05 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add KrisLunden to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I have these three roman or ancient coins here but I have no idea where, or when their from.

Hopefully someone out there can help me identify these coins!

First coin has what looks like C + T on it. With a star over the + sign.

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The second coin is a small one but in better shape than the first one.

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The third one is a big and heavy one.

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Thank you all for your help!
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 Posted 05/26/2015  11:39 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
to the Community!

I went ahead and moved your post from the Identification forum to the Ancient forum. Hopefully this will expedite your answer.
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 Posted 05/26/2015  12:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add KrisLunden to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you jbuck! :-D
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Coin 2 looks like Arcadius, Virtus Exerciti, 395- 401 AD, Antioch mint

http://www.tesorillo.com/aes/085/085i.htm
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Have no idea what coin one can be, maybe with a better picture . I agree that coin two is Arcadius. Coin three Is a Roman Provincial I think it might be Macrinius but I would need a bigger picture of the obverse to be sure.
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 Posted 05/26/2015  8:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Coin #3 is a Roman Provincial coin from the city of Nicopolis-ad-Istrum, in what is now Bulgaria. I can't ID the emperor either.
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 Posted 05/27/2015  09:07 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Athalbert to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Coin 1 is from here...
from Ebusus, (IBIZA, Spain)
1/4 Chalcos
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Thank you for your help! With the help I got I did a little bit more reseach and coin nr 2 was a Arcadius, east roman coin! So thanks a lot for that.

I feel like I've seen pictures of that somewhere on the internet before so Ill keep looking! :-D

As of coin nr 3, Ill upload another picture of the obverse so hopefully you can have a better look and maybe see which emperor that is!



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05/27/2015 09:46 am
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Could the last be Gordian III?

Similar to this example on wildwinds:

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http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/...2062_var.txt
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It is difficult when the legends are not clear, this is as close as I think I will be able to get (again from Wildwinds):
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Gordian III, AE28, Nikopolis ad Istrum

AVT K M ANTW GORDIANOC AVG (AVG ligate), laureate,
draped and cuirassed bust right.
VP CAB MODECTOV NIKOPOLEITWN, PROC-ICTRO-N in right field,
Asklepios standing facing, head left, holding serpent-
entwined staff.

ebay sale, Malter Galleries, 2003.

Varbanov 4171; AMNG 2059 type 1 (Leake).
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The first coin reminded me of the Indian coins for a moment lol. Nice pick ups love the second one from Antioch.
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 Posted 05/28/2015  4:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Athalbert to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2379780

There are a lot of variants for coin 1...
...and they were imitated at Ostia in Italy too!
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 Posted 05/28/2015  7:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add tenbobbit to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Coin 3 has similar types for Diadumenian & Macrinus.
Resting hand on serpent entwined club, I couldn't find an example with the field marks like your coin though.
Pretty sure its of that period.
I think " Bacchus " knows this period well, maybe someone could give him a nudge.
Although Bobbyhelmets suggestion is a lot closer than mine.
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Thank you all for your help! with your guys help it was a lot easier to identify coin nr 2 and 3!

Appreciate all your help!

Thank You!!

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