I fixed the image code; if you click on the small pics, they now link to a larger pic on a Polish photo hosting site. (turn your volume down if you click the links, or they'll start shouting at you in Polish!
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The bigger pics help - a little. Here's what I can make out:
Coin 1: a bit too corroded to tell much about the emperor that issued it; the reverse figure is clearly Aequitas or someone else holding a pair of scales, but I can't see enough text to run a search on.
Coin 2: Sorry. Not much help here. I
think the reverse type is soldier standing holding two standards?
Coin 3: The reverse type is soldier holding standard (although the poor fellow's been decapitated by the piece broken off). The only clear thing I can see is the mintmark: AQT (Aquileia mint), making it post-300 AD.
Coin 4: Looks like someone holed it to put on a string, then it got torn right off again. I can't tell much, except the emperor has a radiate crown, making it sometime in the 250-300 AD period.
Coin 5: It's a female bust on the reverse, that much is clear from the hairdo and from the crescent moon beneath the neckline. Many Roman emperors issued coins in the names of their wives and daughters. But beyond that, I can't say.
Coin 6: I think it's another female bust, but I'm less certain about this one.
Coin 7: Finally, a coin I can definitely identify! Well, almost. It's almost certainly Constantine the Great, reverse type VICTORIA LAETAE PRINC PERP, two Victories inscribing VOT PR on a shield balanced on an altar. Unfortunately, this coin also has a large piece missing, which carried the mintmark away with it too. But
Here's an example of a very similar coin on Wildwinds.
Coin 8: Can't quite read the name of the emperor, but the reverse type is SOLI INVICTO COMITI, the sun-god Sol standing; this type was commonly on the coins of Constantine and his contemporaries.
Coin 9: I think I've got this one tied down: It appears to be emperor Licinius I, reverse type DN LIC LICINI AVGVSTI, VOT XX in wreath.
Like this one.
Coin 10: Can't make out much on this one, but it looks like another radiate-head.
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
Posted 09/08/2008 9:46 pm
