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Hello everyone, I've posted a while ago with blurry pictures a coin lot. Now that I have the coins in person I will be posting a few here every couple of days and updating this post. There are so many and I know nothing about old/foreign coins. Please help me with identification and/or suggested price. Thank you! Note: I'm limited to using my phone right now so I'm sorry if the pictures are huge or displayed strange -------------------------------------------------------- Coin1: Pg.1/Al-Mansur or Al-Hakim/ Coin2: Pg.1/Antonianus of Diocletian XXI/~$20-$30 Coin3: Coin4: Coin5: Coin6: ...etc. Coin 1: Small thin gold coin   Coin 2:   *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. ***Edited by BlueSolo
12/31/2015 7:15 pm
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the second coin is one from the Roman emperor Diocletianus ( AD 284-305 ).It is a pre-reform antoninianus :obv : IMP.C.C.VAL.DIOCLETIANUS P.F.AUG .: head right with the typical
crown indicating an antoninianus .
rev : CONCORDIA MILITUM , in exergue XXI , in the field : Z : Diocletian right,receiving Victory on globe from Jupiter at left . XXI indicates also the value : antoninianus , Z is a control mark .
The first coin is islamic , maybe from Spain .albert
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Second coin is an Antonianus of Diocletian. These were originally silver coins, but by the end of the 3rd century were so debased that they were basically just copper pocket change. This one is a CONCORDIA MILITVM reverse, featuring Diocletian receiving Victory from Jupiter. I would have to look up the reference to find your exact coin, but I believe it to be common. The XXI in the exergue indicates a fineness of 20:1, or about 4.5% silver. I think yours is from the Antioch mint, officina mark Z.
Yours is in pretty good shape. I would guess value to be in the ballpark of $20-30.
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My first thought on your first coin was that it could be Umayyad, but after I checked several references I wasn't able to come up with a match. So I believe Bob's reference to Fatamid is correct.
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Thanks for your responses :D I searched some of them for a couple hours and came up empty except for a few. Coin 3:   Coin 4:   Coin 5:   |
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If you check out the sticky section here on Books, Downloads and Websites you will find lots of reference material that you can use to ID your coins.
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Last one in this batch may be an Ayyubid dirhem.
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First in the latest batch is Constantine I, I believe, IMP COSTANTINVS P F AVG obverse, Sol radiate standing left reverse with SOLI INV_I_CTO COMITI.
I recommend, BlueSolo, posting a new thread for each new one or two coins at a time. It gets a bit confusing having to scroll down deep in a thread to find the new coin needing an i.d. - and when there are several per batch it makes it more challenging by having to scroll back up to find the one you (the reader) is going to be considering for i.d. Much more manageable with one or two per post.
Congrats on picking up all these new - and certainly diverse! - coins.
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Coin #3 is a SOLI INVICTO COMITI reverse for Constantine I. I believe it is from the mint at Rome. Coin 4 appears to be a very badly cracked AE3 from the mint at Cyzicus (officina A). This coin is probably broken and glued back together. The reverse appears to me to be a VIRTVS EXERCITI type with a soldier and spear (left) receiving a wreath from Victory. Exergue: SMK(delta) The obverse inscription reads DN ARCADI{V}S PF AVG. RIC IX 25c3 for Cyzicus Edit: Autocorrect had changed a text element into a smiley.  Edited by lrbguy
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