These are 2 that I cannot determine by the legend. Easy to get a headache staring at wildwind too long. Any help or point in the right direction would be great. Question: The second is very thick. Was that because of the value of the coin or just the variations in the different people who made the coins.
The first one is Probus, this I think https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=278432 The second one is a tet from Alexandria but I'm not great with the type so can't help beyond that
The first is unusual in that it has an obverse legend starting with VIRTVS. Drop that and see if it makes sense. The second is thick and has a reverse legend reading only LB. If you have been reading threads here for any time, you should know what city made thick coins with simple dates on the reverse. The small Greek letters on the obverse are more clear than some. Try starting in the middle and ignore the titles at either end. The big problem will be if you are not comfortable with the Greek alphabet especially the letters that are very different (X is not X but CH; Ξ is not 'divided by' but X etc. I hope you wanted help rather than an ID gift.
Yes exactly I would rather learn and be able to do it myself rather than dependent. I will first have to research what a Tet is. I have been looking at threats here but only been back under a month.
Tet is short for tetra or four and often used for tetradrachm (four drachms) but some of us are sloppy and use it for tetras (a bronze coin worth one fourth of a litra) or tetartemorion (1/4 of a silver obol). We assume everyone knows the lingo and we should be more careful.
@dougsmit is right on both counts! Apologies for the lack of clarity britannia40, as well as handing you a fish rather than doing something to show you how to catch one! If you haven't found it yet, Doug's page is a good place to start on many things ancient related (link in the footer of his posts) and http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html and http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/gi.html in particular for Greek/Greek Imperial coins As is the forum and numiswiki over at FAC. This post has a lot of useful resources for learning how to identify ancient coins and to various databases
Sorry for the late reply and getting back. I have been traveling and had little time for research. I believe I was able to find both of these but I didn't just want to leave it without posting my findings. I believe the first one is a variant of (I say variant be cause all matches but the club is at an angle on the obverse where in wildwinds the club is straight) Probus. AE Antoninianus. VIRTVS PROBI AVG, radiate, helmeted, cuirassed bust left, holding spear and shield HERCVLI PACIF, Hercules standing left, holding olive-branch, club and lion's skin. VXXT in ex. RIC V-2 Ticinum 376, rated scarce The second one I have as Maximiam Herculius, Billon Tetradrachm, Alexandria Mint 286-287 AD, Obverse: Laureate bust r, wearing paludamentum and cuirass ΑΚΜΑΟVΑΜΑΞΙΜΙΑΝΟCCΕΒ, Reverse: Elpis standing l, holding flower and raising skirt of chiton. In field L B star over B. Dattari 5873 and Haatvedt 1297
Looks good. Should have pointed you to OCRE and Probvs.net too! I think they confirm what you have found. http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.5.pro.376 https://probvs.net/probvs/R376/R376.html
