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CONSTANTINE I
AE3 Follis
OBVERSE: CONSTANTINVS AVG, laureate head right
REVERSE: VIRTVS AVGG, campgate with 4 turrets, 5 layers, star above, open panelled doors, PA crescent RL in ex.
Struck at Arelate 326-328 AD
3.1g, 20mm
RIC VII 291

Next: Crescent in mintmark

 

Not the finest known example but it was less than a dollar. Here is one with a crescent in the mint mark:


Constans as Augustus, AD 337-350
Roman billon Æ 3 reduced centenionalis, 1.41 g, 15.7 mm, 11h
Siscia, AD 337-340
Obv: CONSTAN-S P F AVG, rosette-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right
Rev: GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS, two soldiers standing facing each other, resting on spears and shields, one standard between them bearing chi-rho monogram. In exergue: ЄSIS (crescent containing dot), such as:

Refs: RIC viii, p. 355, 99; RCV-18546; LRBC 774; Voetter 11; Cohen 65.

Next up: soldier or soldiers

 

Constans Billon Reduced Centenionalis, Siscia (Sisak, Croatia) mint, 9 Sep 337 - spring 340 A.D.; 1.328g, 16.3mm, 180o, 2nd officina.
Obv: CONSTAN-S P F AVG, laurel and rosette-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: GLORIA EXERCITVS (glory of the army), two soldiers standing facing, flanking labarum (chi-rho Christogram standard), heads confronted, each holds spear in outer hand and rests inner hand on shield, BSIS and dot within crescent in exergue;
RIC VIII Siscia 100
Up Next: Chi-Rho

 

Same coin as mine! Different officina.

 

That's funny. I just posted the first photo of a Roman coin with solders on the reverse that I have in my files. I'll try again.


Constantine II Billon Reduced Centenionalis, Lugdunum (Lyon, France) mint, as caesar, 336 A.D.
1.615g, 17.2mm, 0o, 2nd officina,
Obv: CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C, laureate and cuirassed bust right, from the front;
Rev: GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS (glory of the army), two soldiers standing facing, heads turned inward confronted, two standards in center between them, each holds a spear in outer hand and rests inner hand on grounded shield, *SLG in exergue.
RIC VII Lyons 281 (R4)
Up Next: Coin from Lugbunum

 

LUGDUNUM


RI GALBA AR Quinarius Lugdunum mint laureate r Victory globe stdng left 15mm 1.5g SCARCE


RImp Marc Antony 43 BCE AR Quinarius 13mm 1.67g Lugdunum Winged bust Victory-probly Fulvia Lion DVNI LVGV Cr 489-5 Syd 1160

Next Theme: SHELL

 

SPAIN, ARSAOS/SAGUNTUM
AE Sextan
OBVERSE: Scallop shell
REVERSE: Dolphin right, three pellets above, script below (resembling D/|\\IS)
Struck at Saguntum, Mid 2d Century BC
4.12g, 18mm
Sear Greece I, 27

Next: Dolphin

 

Deer bone cowrie shell

Next: Another form of proto money

 

@Bing, man you guys are fast.



Philip II

Next: Coin of a junior co-emperor

 

Maximian and Diocletian. Same mint, same officina:




Next: Victory with wreath

 

Septimius Severus denarius
Obv:– IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG COS II, Laureate head right
Rev:– VICT AVG, Victory walking left, holding wreath in both hands
Minted in Emesa, A.D. 194 - 195
References:– RIC 426 (Rated Rare), RSC 675d. BMCRE 401.

Ex Roger Bickford-Smith Collection, CNG 47, lot 1708. Ex Barry Murphy Collection



Next: - A non-Rome mint denarius

 

A non-Rome mint denarius:


Roman Republic AR Denarius(3.36g), anonymous(uninscribed corn-ear series), 211-195 B.C., Sicilian mint. Helmeted head of Roma right with "spike" on rear of helmet; behind, X / The Dioscuri galloping right; below, ROMA in linear frame. Crawford 68/1b; Sydenham 191

Next: A Roman coin from Sicily

 

A Roman coin from Sicily


RR Anon AR denarius Roma 211-206 BCE ROMA incus Dioscuri single horn-helmet Sear-- Craw 68-1b SICILY ISSUE RARE

Next Theme: PUNIC WAR

 

WOW, I shut this thread DOWN! (Or, did I break the internet???) Ok, restart:

PUNIC WAR:


Carthage Zeugitania
First Punic War 264-241 BCE
AR Double Shekel 26 mm 13.9 g
Obv: Wreathed (grains) Tanit
Rev: Horse stndng r, star above
SNG Cop 185 Rare

Next Theme: LRB

 

Here's an LRB:


Aelia Flaccilla, AD 379-386
Roman AE Maiorina (AE 2)
Antioch, AD 383-386 4.78 gm, 21.55 mm
Obv: AEL FLACCILLA AVG, diademed and draped bust, r.
Rev: SALVS REIPVBLICAE, Victory seated r., inscribing chi-rho onto shield. T in field r, ANTЄ in exergue.
Refs: RIC 61.3; Sear 20616; Cohen 4; c.f. LRBC II 2747

Next: Coin struck in Antioch

 

Antiochos I Soter, Seleucid Kings of Syria; 281-261 BC
Æ, 16mm, 4.01 g; 3h; Antioch mint
Obv.: Diademed head right
Rev.: Apollo Delphios seated left on the Omphalos of Delphi holding bow and examing arrow; monograms to left and right

Next: Omphalos - not the same reverse.

 

Next: Florianus - fortnight 276

 

FLORIANUS:


RI Florianus Jul-Aug 276 CE AE23 Concord-Milit

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