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May be Constantius II  Edited by mcshilling
11/27/2018 3:08 pm
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Yep, Constantius II (DN CONSTANTIVS PF AVG), reverse is the 'fallen horseman' 'FEL TEMP REPARATIO', but a bad strike has mostly erased the horseman. A roman soldier is spearing him as he falls from his horse. In this case, the barbarian raises his hand backwards to block the blow, having dropped his shield (the tiny object under the roman). Mintmark looks to be ALEΔ, i.e. the Alexandria mint.
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Thanks Ben, does it make any difference with a part or half rotated coin.
Also do you know what KM # to use?
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Roman mints hand struck coinage so the die axis can really vary coin to coin and so is not typically reported.
I've no idea what a KM# is, but this is RIC VIII Alexandria 80 (Δ). Oddly, RIC VIII Alexandria 82 (Δ) seems to be exactly the same, but instead of being 16-19mm, it is 15-17mm. Maybe someone who owns the physical book can explain the difference.
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So when I said KM# I should have said RIC # I'm still learning, sorry.
Another ? how are you typing (Δ) with a special keyboard?
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The learning process never ends! I like that though, it means being constantly exposed to new things.
The quickest way I have found to bring up a specific greek letter is not a very sophisticated method - I go to google, type in the word and copy the character from the search result. For this, I googled 'Delta letter' to try to avoid results about the airline.
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I like these types, I have a few. Here are mine. The first is Constantius II 
The second I think is Constans (but I'm not sure)  |
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how are you typing (Δ) with a special keyboard? @mcshilling, I don't want to hijack your thread, but Bobby added Greek (and German) letter functionality to CCF earlier this year. You can access it when you use the "switch to full reply" option and then copy and paste into your message. It is süper Cööl!  "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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You can also just type the name of the letter (e.g. Alpha, Omega, etc) with "&" (ampersand) at the beginning and ";" (semi-colon) at the end. If you capitalize the Greek letter name, you get upper case; if you don't, it renders as lower case. http://www.dionysia.org/html/entities/symbols.htmlEdited by Kushanshah
11/29/2018 12:49 am
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