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orangecheese New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 11/03/2007 1:46 pm Was wondering what this coin is and it's estimated value. It would be a big help. And those letters by the head are Constanti and then it's cut off. Report this Post to the Staff

Metalman Pillar of the Community United States 7123 Posts	Posted 11/03/2007 3:12 pm Were going to need much closer pics of the coin to be able to help . Thanks Metalman Report this Post to the Staff
orangecheese New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 11/03/2007 3:51 pm The only camera I have makes the picture of the coin blurry up close, any advice on a better picture? Report this Post to the Staff
Metalman Pillar of the Community United States 7123 Posts	Posted 11/03/2007 4:00 pm Hi Orangecheese Does your camera have a macro setting the macro helps you get closer to the coin to take the picture ? If you can crop the edges to where you have less back ground and more coin . and I should have said welcome to the forum in my first post to you ! So Welcome to the forum ! Metalman Report this Post to the Staff
arthrene Pillar of the Community United States 1713 Posts	Posted 11/03/2007 4:13 pm You can also try scanning the coin. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16816 Posts	Posted 11/04/2007 12:28 am I can see the details well enough to know there's a serious problem here. You're sure those two pictures are the two sides of the same coin? If so, then I'm sorry to say you seem to have a reproduction ancient coin. One side (top picture) has the portrait of a 4th century Roman emperor, with a name (in Latin) starting with CONSTANT... so it's Constantine the Great or one of his heirs and successors. All the coins on this Wildwinds page for emperor Constantius II have a similar portrait. The other side, however, is older. It's the obverse from a Judaean bronze of the time of Nero, circa 60 AD. You can see part of his name ...O KLAV KAI... (in Greek) around the central design, which is crossed shields and spears. The ones on this page labelled "Hendin 652" are similar to this design. Sadly, these two different sides are from two completely different coins, several centuries apart. It would be like finding a Half Cent obverse on a Washington quarter - an impossible combination on a genuine coin, and therefore a fantasy. Sorry. What you've got there is most likely a "tourist copy", sold on the streets of the Middle East to tourists. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
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