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Hello, So - my uncle came round today - he had heard that I was collecting roman coins and knew he had some somewhere which he had bought in his youth in Greenwhich market. Well - he came across them not so long ago - they've been in a PVC thing for a while and some have toned pretty nicely from it. Amongst the lot was a very nice Constantine II BEATA from london mint - starry field helmet and all - this Nero - diocletian, 2 tetricus (1 barb and 1 official - one had SOL on it!), a barb Victorinus (possibly a garbled tetricus) and a few other bits and bobs. After I told him about what he had - he let me pick one out! In fact, he insisted. It was a toss up between Diocletian and this one - I've got a Nero but it is not a portrait coin - and this is silver! Its a type I've admired from a far so I've got no idea what the parts to ID are.    Any info would be good! What I've found is the date mark is LIA - 64/65AD and its minted in Alexandria. |
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Nice, Looks like a year one Alexandria tetradrachm.
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I should add specifically example #8 on that wildwinds link.
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Pillar of the Community
 United Kingdom
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Whiz - very nearly - this one has a simpluum next to the eagle.
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Edited by Whizb4ng
03/21/2013 3:09 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wow!
Very nice Fourre !!
Looks like the foil fold line is a classic (very classy) example!
Could you please,post weight? Size?
Very interested in core alloy. bronze?
Eagle with palm branch....war and peace?
Like the eagle!
edit for, and or fouree and fourree .....
Edited by tokenmast
03/21/2013 3:07 pm
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Well, I dont have the scales to measure it accurately but a small balance shows it to weigh about 8.25 grams (heavier than 1 20p and 1 5p but lighter than 1 20p and 1 1p) - putting it in the range 8.25g < X < 8.56g.
Its 20mm wide and its pretty circular but its missing all the legend apart from N in Nero so I think the real deal would be a bit bigger.
Im not sure about the symbolism of the eagle - perhaps DavidUK will know more about that (hes into his greek stuff and this is pretty graecian for a roman coin).
The core alloy is a bit difficult - I dont want to harm the coin to check - its nicely toned - but the one place where the proper core alloy is showing is unstable so I've cleaned that out and it looks to be pretty good quality billon. Id say this is purer silver than the trebonianus Gallus I have.
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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Lovely coin Ben , your uncle sound like my dad , whenever I'm interested in something , he always has things in the loft :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thank You for info
very interesting!
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now that coin has some meat on it's bones..nice and thick.
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