Magnentius AE2 - Two Victories - Reshoot Again!!

Magnentius AE2 Lugdunum, 4.7g, 23mm

OBV: D N MAGNEN-TIVS P F AVG, bare-headed, draped & cuirassed bust right. "A" behind head.

REV: VICTORIAE DD NN AVG ET CAE, Two Victories supporting wreath inscribed VOT/V/MVLT/X. SV in lower centre, RPLG in exergue.

REF: RIC VII 128, LRBC 223

Post those Magnentius coins if you got em'!!

 

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Nice looking coin Gil. Good detail on the two Victories.

 

Curious? => what did the old version/photo look like?

 

Love the two Victories reverse Gil !!

May sole example has the Christogram reverse...

 

Thanks Daryl => well, the new shots certainly have better definition (lookin' good)

=> your photo-skills are becoming very good (like most of the CT ancient folks) ... congrats!!

I don't seem to have the same "drive/interest" to hone those skills, but I certainly have great respect for dudes who are awesome at photography!!! (oh, and I freely admit that I am a total sucka for a sweet photo ... that's why I'm a sucka for the CNG coins => unlike most of you, I am a huge fan of the negative/invisible background!!)

 

Ummm, rather than posting my cool Magnentius (Nancy), I'm gonna post one of my two-victory examples ...

Valerian I, Billon , Antoninianus
253-260 AD
Diameter: 23 mm
Weight: 3.76 grams
Obverse: IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG, Valerian bust right radiate cuirassed and draped
Reverse: VOTA ORBIS, Two victories attaching shield inscribed SC to a palm-tree

 

I still get a chuckle out of Nancy Mag!

 

I have shot this black coin many times to get it the way I can live with.



This is the same type but a doublestrike where the first strike was a brockage. I has been photographed several times as well and I never know when to give up on it.

 

Wow Doug, that coin's a glorious mess.

 

As always, I love what you can get a camera to capture... and what JA said about the 'brockage' coin.----It is truly 'glorious' in its own way...

Those two victories are wonderful!! And, the portrait terrific!!

 

My sole Magnentius


MAGNENTIUS
AE3
OBVERSE: DN MAGNENTIVS P F AVG - Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust right; "A" behind bust
REVERSE: VICTORIAE DD NN AVG ET CAE, two Victories standing facing each other, holding wreath between them inscribed VOT V MVLT X in four lines. Epsilon over IS in lower centre. Mintmark PAR in exergue
Struck at Arelate 350-3 AD
3.8g, 20mm
Arles RIC VIII 177

 

Awesome example! If you ever get bored of it, well, I suppose I could make more room for it in my collection

 

i think OP's previous shots had softer lights, and the rev. actually looked more clear.
obv. definitely better in the reshoot.

 

Mikey Zee's Ambianum chi-rho is very nice. Is it possible to have diameter and weight?

 

I don't have it listed on the "attribution card" it came with---I believe I bought it from Wayne Philips many years ago and it lists:

Double Centenionalis, P C 30 Seaby 3917

EDIT: After my first cup of coffee, it dawned on me I bought this one about this past November or so from Heritage...and the weight is listed as 8.49 grams on the copied bid page.

 

Some I wonder why I bought them--- and that even is true at this very moment---but, some I fall more in love with each passing day....and that is one of them...but I'll keep you in mind if I get a bit fickle or desperate again.

 

Avoid getting fickle and despirate. It has a way of turning back on you. I sold a bunch of coins in 1974 thinking I was desperate. I wasn't and have regretted it ever since. Sell coins you don't want. Don't buy coins that you may need to liquidate to live.

Many AMB's are part legend due to small flans. Be glad yours is full. Below is 6.4g. Yours is RIC 34 page 123 and called C=common. Mine is RIC 41 and S=scarce. I'd much rather have yours.

 

Also a great example for Ambianum. I also noticed what Doug Smith is saying about the double-maiorinae of this mint being struck on narrow flans and weights as low as 4g.
Actually for this whole type the fluctuations are so big and frequent that it might have meant different denominations.

Here is my most interesting Magnentius chi-rho. It is not a rare or particularly beautiful coin but interesting for its dimensions: at 34-32mm and "only" 7.50g it is a quite unusually wide flan for a double-maiorina, the largest I have seen up until now.

RIC VIII Trier 318, 352-353AD.

 

cool coin, Doug