Yet Another Uncleaned Batch, Need Some Serious Help Here!

I knew somebody would make that joke!

Its time to get pictures of every coin up (oh boy oh boy) and start Identifying them. No hopers will be put into a seperate section for more... destructive, cleaning. A couple can be salvaged, I'm sure.

First off, the oldest in the batch:

COIN 1:
S C with eagle below. 19mm. Early Empire style bust.

That ones going into the favourites pile..

COIN 2:
Gloria Exercitvs, Thessalonica, will find the emperor in a second, but the bust has a massive gap in it which has taken some of the very important letters with it. 17mm.


COIN 3:
Victory walking reverse, very attractive shiny patina, one of the constantines. Constantinopolis mint. 17mm.


COIN 4:
Constantinopolis mint, cant make out the reverse, hoping its going to be a FEL TEMP fallen horseman, I dont have one yet and I'm itching to get one. 18mm. Funky letter left of bust.
<Picture has screwed itself up, so Ill retake it after I post>

COIN 5:
Votive issue, very nice, came worn down to metal without dirt, quite suspect, but a lovely coin. Something SIVS - I'm hoping theo. VOT X MMLT X X in wreath. 14mm.

<another of the screwed photos>

COIN 6:
A late empire bust, bad bronze disease. Emperor dragging captive. I reckon Cyzicus. 17mm.


COIN 7:
One side is nice, the other is completely mashed up. 16mm. Victory, probably. N to the left, M R to the right.


COIN 8:
Another chewed up one, can be identified I bet. reverse is one I dont know about. Cross in field to the right. 17mm.


JUNK COINS:
JC1: Billon coloured pock marked horrid thing, ill only give one side, you dont need two sides, theres nothing there:

JC2: Big old coin, worn down to a lovely smooth finish, but alas, not IDable. 26mm at widest. See top pictures, there is no difference.
JC3: Bronze disease has killed this one. I think its victory. well preserved beneath the BD, so I may try burning it off in citrus acid.


Thats all folks, Input welcome, ill be working through them myself to try and get a few IDs out of the batch.

your number 2 may be constans..I think the letter are FLIVLCONSTANSNOBC, not sure if that matches with that mint or not though?

some interesting stuff in there. 3 looks cool also!

I wonder if your coin #1 is a Diadumenian:

Antioch SGI 3017v AE19. Antioch, Syria. 217-218 AD. KAI M O DI ANTWNINOC CE, radiate head right / SC within wreath, D above, eagle below. SGI 3017 var.

http://wildwinds.com/coins/ric/diad...GI_3017v.jpg

I cannot tell from the image if it is radiate or not, but if not it could be: Diadumenian AE18, Antioch MacAlee 755; Antioch, Syria. 217-218 AD. KAI O DIA ANTWNINOC, bare head right / Large SC within wreath, wreath over delta-epsilon above, eagle below.

http://wildwinds.com/coins/ric/diad...Alee_755.jpg

Also, the Fel Temp image is not barbaric in my opinion, but it is on a small flan. The mintmark is "CONSGAMMA" (Constantinople). It also looks like there is a letter in the reverse left field, but I cannot make it out.

Ben,

I don't believe your FEL TEMP is barbaric but I may wrong

Clearly though, I am pretty sure it is Constantius Gallus.

-Kurt

it looks like all the CONS gamma mintmark fel temps with a symbol behind the bust are either constantius ii or constantius gallus as bd said. based on where the "ON" hits there at hits there at 11 o'clock, I would also go with constantius gallus also.

Coin 3 is actually Valentinian I.

OBV: D N VALENTINI-ANVS P F AVG
REV: SECVRITAS REIPVBLICAE

Cheerio mate,

Kurt