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I recently found some roman coins that I had gotten years ago as uncleaned coins and cleaned them up. Anyway I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out what they are. I'm uploading pictures of the three coins that seemed to be the most likely to be possible to identify, any help would be appreciated. Coin 1: Front  Back  Coin 2: Front  Back  Coin 3: Front  Back  |
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1st coin looks like Constans
2nd looks like Constantine I
3rd looks like Julian or his brother Constantius Gallus.
Edited by Augustus Maximus
03/24/2015 8:18 pm
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For coin #3 IF we can assume that these two assumptions are actually true
#1) There is "K" in the mint mark
#2) There is a "Delta" fieldmark behind the bust
THEN we can say this is:
Constantius Gallus, Cyzicus mint, RIC 99
Edited by Biancasdad
03/24/2015 10:56 pm
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I think you are correct with coin number 3, I looked at it a bit closer, and the delta fieldmark is there, it's much easier to see in person than in the picture. And the mintmark appears to be SMK, again easier to tell when I look again in person rather than in the picture.
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Just wanted to add a thank you for helping. I'm hoping to try to start picking up some more ancient coins again and hopefully I'll be able to contribute some more to this forum.
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You are very welcome and please feel free to post anything and everything as our members are diverse in nature and giving in spirit, and by the way....  |
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United States
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Here's one more that might be a long shot because of the condition. I'm only posting a picture of the front because the back doesn't have anything that I could get to show up in a picture. What I was able to get from the back is that it is from the Cyzicus mint.  |
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It from "Emperor" Honorius. Looks like an AE-2 from the 390's
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Thanks, another emperor to learn about, as I'm identifying these I'm trying to look up a bit about each of the emperors. It's been pretty interesting hopefully I'll be able to learn enough to identify them on my own before too long.
I'm thinking I might get another batch of uncleaned coins before too long to see if I can get any of the better condition ones on my own.
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If you guys don't mind I'm going to post one more to check and see if I got the emperor right. I'm thinking this one is another Constans, as the portrait looks similar to the first coin that I posted. Unfortunately I haven't figured out how to get all the detail that you can see in hand into the picture, but hopefully the picture is good enough for someone to tell me if I'm right or wrong on it.  Also how do you recognize the emperors when you can't read the name on the coin? Is there an easy to use reference somewhere to skim through and try to match the portrait, or is it just from seeing enough of them you start to recognize the different ones? |
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As I do a bit more research I think the Constans that I just posted is this one. http://www.coinproject.com/coin_det...?coin=296257At least from what I can tell of the back it is correct, although I'm not sure if I got the correct mint as most of the mint mark is missing on mine, and from the little bit (one letter) that I can see of it it looks like the middle letter of the mint mark is a T, and with a very good amount of imagination there might be part of an S after it. Based on the size of the letter I think that the T is the middle letter of a 3 letter mintmark. Any ideas of what mint it could be from that, or am I probably just misreading the one letter as a T since it is in bad shape? |
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TS?
THESSALONICA mint in greece
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There is a very interesting book about ancient roman coins for begginers.
It´s quite Cheap and has been writed by an argentinian scholar Damian R. Salgado. The title is "Monedas Romanas. el bajo imperio (294-498 d.j.c.)".
My son says that this book "...is a massive attribution weapon".
I know that is in spanish (and english), but is the best to attribute a coin.
It has been printed by "letra viva editorial. division numismática"
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