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New Member
United Kingdom
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Hi there, I'm a complete novice when it comes to identification - we have a coin collection at home, inherited from my late father-in-law. This coin looks Greek to us, but searching for hours on Google with descriptive terms is proving fruitless!! Could we humbly ask anyone if they can identify this coin? There seems to be a good amount of detail present but we can't find anything helpful on Google. Here's a link to some images of the coin: https://drive.google.com/drive/fold...?usp=sharingThanks so much in advance! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 Please upload the picture to this thread. |
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 United States
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"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 Your coin is a Roman Imperial issue. The reverse is REPARATIO REIPVB; emperor standing left, with right hand raising kneeling turreted woman and holding Victory on globe in left; B in right field. The coin was struck in Thessalonica A.D. 378- 383 and the mintmark is probably SMTES. I can't quite make out the obverse legend; but this type was issued for three rulers-- Gratian (D N GRATIA-NVS P F AVG) Valentinian II (D N VALENTINIANVS P F AVG) and Theodosius I (D N THEODO-SIVS P F AVG) |
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Bulgaria
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New Member
 United Kingdom
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Hi again everyone, thank you so much for your advice and help regarding posting Bob L and Spence. I will post images in the thread in future.
Victor, thank you so much for taking the time to download and post the images on the thread, and for your very detailed identification, I'm so grateful to you!
iulius, thank you for the link too.
All fascinating stuff, love learning about this! Have a great day all!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Maybe it's Magnus Maximus from Arles No, it is clearly from Thessalonica. Not only is part of the mintmark legible, but the B in the right field should remove any doubt, as it was only used at Thessalonica. |
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Valued Member
Bulgaria
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Victor, I have to admit you're right - Gratian from Thessaloniki
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02/14/2022 3:52 pm
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