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  please can someone help identify this coin, it's roman I think. maybe there's a rider holding a sceptor? weighs 3.28g, measures ~20mm widest part HH
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Pillar of the Community
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My best guess would be one of these 3:
Hororius
Arcadius
Theodosius I
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Looks like something out of star wars!
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Sadly this coin is too far gone to say who is is.
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well, the portrait looks like Phillip or close by. The reverse shows a horse grazing and the letters at the bottom are TRO - records show this means the phrase COL AVG is above the horse (Colonia Augusta - the city (Troas) had colony status at this point). However, its actually Gallienus, I think, with a herdsman behind:  |
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Ah yes, the world reknowned "low rating high price"
My mistake, Highrating Lowprice.
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For obscure provincial issues like this, there is not much literature. Instead, you could try researching the city (Alexandria Troas to the Greeks, then Colonia Alexandria Augusta Troas to the Romans). Constantine apparently considered making it the capital of the Roman empire (he instead chose Byzantium, renaming it Nova Roma (New Rome) until the populace declared it Constantinople, thecity of Constantine).
Also read up about Gallienus - this is a curiously well produced coin for the period, where the mint got so bad that official coinage and barbarous coinage became indistinguishable.
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thanks for the replies.
I'll claim it to be super rare so as to create conversation.
"An idea struck them, they'll put a hole in it and wear it with a string.
It was a well loved coin never taken off or leaving the string and as days
turned into weeks which in turn produced years, the metal slowly gave way
and wore thin. one day it snapped and fell, and sank deep. 1700 long years
had passed until as fate would have it an unlikely creature, HawkHybrid came
and pocketed it.... urghh someones snot is still on this!"
HH
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more coins that I need help with: 1, is this a constantius ii miliarense? weight 1.49g diameter widest ~16mm   2, please help identify weight 2.72g, widest ~16mm, palm tree on one side and maybe two people together on the other side   3, please help identify weight 5g, widest ~15mm, thickness ~3mm   HH |
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