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 Posted 07/29/2015  5:47 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Bodey to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hello everyone,
A while back (when I had no experience in coin collecting) I bought this roman coin, and now looking at it I am strongly convinced it is fake. It just does not look/feel right to me. I know nothing about it except that I bought it for a dollar. I am just wondering if someone can tell me what kind of coin this is and also if it is even real or not.

Thanks,
Michael

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Canada
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 Posted 07/29/2015  5:56 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add arnoldoe to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
looks like it is probably real, it's a Roman bronze coin made in Siscia, probably 4th century,

other people here are good at IDing these
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 Posted 07/29/2015  5:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Kamnaskires to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Perhaps Constantius Gallus:
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/ca...asp?zpg=1148

Looks okay to me.
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 Posted 07/29/2015  6:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bodey to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you for the comments, I am going to guess that these are very common, as this one was ridiculously cheap?
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 Posted 07/29/2015  6:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Kamnaskires to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
We'll have to wait for some of the Roman collectors on this board to answer the rarity and value questions...I'm sure you'll have some answers soon.

In the meantime, welcome to the board, Bodey!
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 Posted 07/29/2015  6:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
BobL has IDed it. It is Constantius Gallus, this one is in very nice condition.
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 Posted 07/29/2015  6:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add arnoldoe to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It looks like 95% of Constantius Gallus coins are of the fallen horseman type
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yours seems rarer, there is only one on VCoins and it is selling for $85 but maybe in slightly better condition,

http://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/vic...Default.aspx
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07/29/2015 6:24 pm
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 Posted 07/29/2015  6:48 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bodey to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Wow, that is very interesting, ill have to do some more research. I bought this only because I thought it looked cool haha. and thank you Bob! I'm glad to be here
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 Posted 07/29/2015  9:48 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add chrsmat71 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
that was a well spent dollar! nice coin bodey.
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 Posted 07/29/2015  11:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add FVRIVS RVFVS to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I have also bought ancient coins at "flea markets" ! I bought two rather decent silver coins for $20.
After the purchase I told the seller "you know these are two thousand years old ?"
He replied "yes I know ........ but try telling that to people around here"
He could not sell them because no one believed him !
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 Posted 07/30/2015  12:34 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bodey to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Its a shame that there are so many fakes these days that the first instinct is to assume its fake...
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 Posted 07/30/2015  06:11 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Ben to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
This is a more interesting type than it first appears. The reason it seems so odd is that the design is one created and issued for Vetranio, who also issued them for Constantius II from mints under his control. However, Vetranio abdicated before Gallus was raised to Caesar so numismatists were quite surprised when his designs cropped up (including from one of the mints that Vetranio never controlled).
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 Posted 07/30/2015  09:20 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bodey to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Wow, very cool, when I had first bought it I couldnt find much reseach on this exact coin, I would find other varations of it which led mentome to believe it was fake, but luckily I was wrong, very, very wrong
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 Posted 07/30/2015  2:40 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BullionPirate to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Nice pick up!
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 Posted 07/30/2015  6:28 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bodey to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you!
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 Posted 07/30/2015  9:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add orfew to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Interesting coin
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