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Constantius II?

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 Posted 05/09/2011  07:53 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Ngdawa to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
A friend showed me this coin and asked what I knew about it. But since I'm all new in the ancient coin forum I though that maybe the experts here can help me out?

All info's are welcome, but just don't tell me it's a fake, Please! because he also told me that this is his favourite coin in his whole collection.

Constantius-II?

Cheers!
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 Posted 05/09/2011  09:21 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yep, Constantius II. The standard FEL TEMP REPARATIO soldier-spearing-fallen-horseman design. Mint looks like Sirmium.

"FEL TEMP REPARATIO" expands to "felicium temporum reparatio" and translates to "happy times restored" or, perhaps more liberally, "happy days are here again". The gory scene gives us some indication of what sort of things the Romans had in mind when they reminisced about the "good old days".
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 Posted 05/09/2011  10:15 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Ngdawa to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I don't know how you know all of this, but it's awesome that you do!

At first I thought the reverse looked like horse with a chariot, but I guess that wasn't quite right?

Thanks alot!
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It's much easier to identify types on late Roman bronzes, because by that stage the coin designs had fossilized into less than a dozen different types, as opposed to the hundreds of different designs per emperor you might encounter in the earlier Empire.

Romancoin.info, part of the FORVM website, has some good basic information for categorizing these late Roman bronzes.
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