Budgood ancient ??

This has been sitting on my desk for a while, it came from one of the last Budgood bags and I need help !! LOL

What do you think. It weighs 2.6 gr and averages about 16 mm in diameter and 1 mm thick and bronze of some sort.
Thanks folks

Edit: the scale is english and graduated in 1/64ths

 

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oops, heres pics

 

i hope i get something like that when i order my bag...lol


stainless

 

looks like a julia maesa but could be off on that as all the Julia paula,julia aquilia severa , julia soaemaias look very similar but might give u a lead

EDIT: lol totally off on my part ah wells

 

Someone with more experiance can elaborate & DID correct me .

Very cool -

 

It almost seems too nice to be real. It is die struck, as there are no cast lines or seams, but thats about it as far as my skill can take me. I cannot imagine a relic/ancient like this having the hair detail this coin has.

 

Actually, they can have that good or better hairlines, here is an example of mine:

 

Stainless is right, ancients can have alot of detail. Your coin does look kind of strange though A.Z.
I'm far from being an expert on ancients though.

 

How in the world did that make it into a budgood bag? And what could possibly be next? An 1877 IHC?

 

Harryj,
What? Didn't you know? Didn't AJ tell you?
AJ can really keep a secret, yes he can.




His ancient is 100+ years older than mine... teehee.

jeankay

 

Sorry Bud, you're off by about two hundred years. That is a VERY nice coin of Fausta, wife of Emperor Constantine. Fairly rare too, an R4 from a Western mint usually means it is actually rare. Let me know if you want to get rid of it, Jack. :whistle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fausta

Fausta
Follis
Arles, 325-326 AD
mantled bust r. with head bare, waved hair
FLAV MAX - FAVSTA AVG
Empress standing facing, looking left, head veiled, holding two children in her arms
SALVS REI-PVBLICA
QA crescent RL in exergue
RIC VII Arles 298
R4

 

finally the secret is out. i will go look

 

LOL

I googled it and found this thread !!!

 

lol

 

I had a feeling I was , but I knew you would come along & set me straight.:goof:

Oh well I tried- Just another reminder to stay in my envelope of expertise.

 

A lovely example of the type...like said above...if you are looking to get rid of it let me know

 

Drusus, I simply cannot pass this chance to stir it up a bit, laugh along with me:

I will sell you the coin only after it is back from slabbing, I need to make a big profit on this one.

 

brother budgood remember we spoke about the bag of gold eons ago i feel i should have done it

 

Wonderful. When they missattribute it as Constantine the Great Bronze, 300-360 AD I'll buy it at a steal.

 

Do you think they will get that close? I was thinking it would come back classified as a 4th Century Macedonian Tetradrachm