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Had a feeling I didn't post all of my acquisitions for last month. Here comes Constantius II, late to the party. Apologies for the less-than-my-usual-quality photos; wanted to see if I could take a photo of it without having to take it out of its air-tite. It didn't turn out too bad I guess  Its now the best condition fallen horseman in my collection.  This one should be pretty easy to ID for those that want to. |
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Really nice reverse detail. What is the last letter in the mint mark?
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Thanks echizento! Its an epsilon.
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Nice job! You got it!  That's the attribution I have for it. |
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Nice looking coin there. I like this coin type especially in this condition.
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Thanks jessvc1! Yeah, same here; most of my other ones are in decent to poor condition, so this one is certainly the gem of my fallen horseman coins.
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I must admit, Valiant, your coin sure has some nice clarity and a sweet and fairly refined artistic style of the reverse design -- much prettier and not so crude as some examples out there (ie like the ones in my own collection,lol!). You have a very nice coin there! One thing I've always enjoyed about this particular series is the remarkable variety of coins that can be found -- not only in artistic styles but in the range of mint marks, and even the size of the coins themselves. I've seen them anywhere from 15mm to as big as 23mm. A person could get quite a good-sized collection just trying to find all the known varieties. Good eye for picking that one up! |
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This coin will always be a bit special to me. In 1997, I had a desire to learn to code HTML language for web pages and decided to post something to free space offered by Geocities (bought out by Yahoo years ago). That was the start of my web pages. That week I had been talking to my friend Victor Failmezger about his theory that the Antioch mint FH coins show the rider using a stirrup - a technology not known to the Romans. That first week I posted a piece on Septimius Severus (later deleted when it was incorporated into a larger page) and one on the Stirrup theory which is still available: http://www.forumancientcoins.com/do.../notsev.htmlYour coin shows the stirrup rope just like the Antioch coins on my page. I still can not prove that the enemy of the Romans shown on those coins used stirrups but I still believe it. While I am gladdened by your coin, I am always hurt when someone does not care enough for their photo to take the coin out of the holder. I have two or three Airtites that came with coins I bought so I know they are easy to open and will reclose at least a few times before they break seal. I hate slabs all the time but only hate Airtites when they appear ruining photos of good coins. |
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I'm just curious. What do you use to hold and store your coins?
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And oh yeah. That is a very nice coin and a great upgrade to any FH coin of similar type and ruler.
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Thanks for the comments! Dougsmit, just wanted to see if decent pics could be take with the coin still in it, because I am bad at opening air-tites (usually they are too tightly closed and have no grove to open them with). But I decided to try and open it after reading your post and managed get the coin out.  A little dark but this is the best I can do without waiting 8 hours or so for sunlight. Gil-galad, a lot of my coins are in plastic flips (which I prefer), but some are in cardboard 2x2s, 2x2 paper envelopes, and this Constantius is the only one in an airtite. And then I have those that are attributed but are in bad shape as to not deserve a plastic flip, so those I just put all together in a small plastic bag. |
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An intriguing theory put forward about these Antioch FHs dougsmit. Would be very interesting if they turned out to really be stirrups. To me, when I look at them, they don't strongly go either way, stirrups or just fancy trusers, so both are equal possibilities for me when I think about it.
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