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Hello! Can you tell me the RIC number of this coin? I could not find...  Obverse: CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C Reverse: VICTORIA CAESS Weight: 1.19 gram Without mintmark!!   Thank you! |
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Well this should be RIC VII 65, but there should be a mint mark of .TS.B. there for Thessalonica. I could be imagining it but I see what looks like some letter there.
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The reverse is different! VICTORIA CAESS and not VICTORIA CAESS NN :) More picture:   |
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United States
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Your coin is from Rome, RIC VII 142
Rarity rating of R5
Congrats on this find!!
Edited by Biancasdad
11/20/2014 4:54 pm
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United States
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Where did you find the reference? I checked several resources and couldn't come up with it.
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Thank you! :)
I'm very happy! :D
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United Kingdom
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Here is an image taken from RIC VII, Rome, with the relevant reference. I may be mistaken, but is the reverse actually more like RIC VII ROME 140 regarding the legend breaks? Yes the obverse is like 142, but...?  Btw. Here is the part of the key to the obverse types that applies here:  Edited by Valecrucis
11/20/2014 5:15 pm
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I guess I'm going to have to use my RIC catalogs more often, I'm just too lazy to search through them.
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My coin is RIC VII 142 I think also!
Because the 140 obverse legend is: CONSTANTINVS AVG
Thank you all! :)
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IMO, bust is B4 Laureate draped and cuirassed and the legend break is definitely VICTOR-I-A as you can see the "I" is clearly seperated between the wreath and head, thus RIC 142 @echizento, it is listed on helvetica's pages too so you can still be lazy like me  Edited by Biancasdad
11/20/2014 5:36 pm
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United Kingdom
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No question the bust is B4. The reverse legend reads VICTOR - I - ACAESS as in 140 though; not VICTOR - I - A - CAESS as 142 suggests. The actual representation of Victory does seem to be as described for 142 however, with Victory seeming to be advancing not standing. So it seems to be a bit of a mixture of elements to me.
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Gee, I checked there, missed it completely.
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Val, 140 lists the legend as VICTORI-A which it clearly isn't as the "I" is separate from the "A"
In both cases it is ACAESS but for some reason RIC denotes that in two different ways, one with a 'space' and one with a 'dash'
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And 140 is a coin of Constantine I NOT Constantine II. :)
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Yes that is right BD. I missed that 140 showed the VICTOR together with the I and was thrown by the two different ways of showing that the A is conjoined with the CAESS. My mistake then....it is a clear 142. For the record though, I never did say it actually was the 140 itself.  ...and I did say I might be mistaken! Oops!   Edited by Valecrucis
11/20/2014 5:43 pm
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Edited by Baltas
11/20/2014 5:43 pm
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Posted 11/20/2014 4:40 pm
