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 Posted 10/09/2007  3:57 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add weryon to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Ok I know I am starting to abuse this forum but this is the last one for a few :D ok it's a very small coin 14mm in diameter, also on the obverse I cant really make out emperor, these are the characters I can read ETANTINVS , on the reveres there are two soldiers holding spears surrounding one battle standard. I can't make out the mint although I can see what I take to be a D or an O in the middle of the mint mark.

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Any infotmation regarding this coin would be greatly apreciated


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 Posted 10/09/2007  8:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I read "...STANTINVS A..", which tells me it's a Constantine. Probably Constantine I (the Great), because Constantine II wasn't "augustus" for very long; most of his coins have NOB C. You've got the reverse right, as far as I can tell. Something like this one.
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 Posted 10/12/2007  11:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add NumisMattyUk to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
just out of interest what did it mean to be named 'augustus'? it sounds obviously like some kind of an honorary title?
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Augustus (meaning majestic, exalted or venerable) was originally the title bestowed by the Senate on the imperator (general) Octavian once he'd finished off all his rivals. The end of the Republic and beginning of the Empire is generally reckoned to be the date this title was bestowed (16th January 27 BC). Octavian is regarded as the first Emperor and is better known to history simply by the title "Augustus". All subsequent emperors claimed this title for themselves, as part of their claim to being the legitimate heir of the original Augustus.

When Diocletian reformed the imperial government in 293 AD and created the Tetrarchy, he formalised the system which had in fact been generally used for over a century: the senior emperors received the title "augustus", and the junior emperors received the title "caesar". These titles continued until well into the Byzantine period.
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 Posted 10/14/2007  8:03 pm  Show Profile   Check Victor's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Victor to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

This seems to be Constantine II.

Besides the portrait looking more like him than Constantine I, the obverse legend would indicate Constantine II.

The obverse legends for Constantine I on one standard coins ends with MAX AVG, while this coin does not have MAX in the obverse legend.
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