Ancient LRB Bargain Bin

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  1. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

    Doug, sometimes you are quite the numismatic philosopher.
     
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  3. RaceBannon

    RaceBannon Member

    It took me a couple days but I'm closing out the attributions on this lot:

    Constantine II; 326-28 AD
    Bronze AE3, 20mm/3.7g, Thessalonica mint
    OBV: CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C, head, laureate, draped & cuirassed bust left /
    REV:pROVIDENTIAE CAESS, camp-gate with two turrets and star above, SMTS in ex.
    (RIC VII 157.1)
     

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  4. RaceBannon

    RaceBannon Member

    Constantine I; 320-321 AD
    Bronze AE3; Siscia Mint; 19mm/3.1g
    OBV: CONSTANTINVS AVG, laureate head right
    REV: DN CONSTANTINI MAX AVG, VOT XX in wreath, SIS star in ex
    (RIC VII, 159b)
     

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  5. Gil-galad

    Gil-galad I AM SPARTACUS

    Nice campgate.
     
  6. RaceBannon

    RaceBannon Member

    Still rasslin' with this one.

    Constantine I;
    Bronze AE3; 21mm/2.8g
    OBV: IMP CONSTANTINVS P F AVG; Head, laureate, and draped right
    REV: IOVI CONSERVATORI; Jupiter standing left, holding Victory on a globe & sceptre, eagle with wreath in beak at foot, ST(gamma?) in ex
     

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  7. John Anthony

    John Anthony Ultracrepidarian

    You probably already know this, but SMTS is the Thessalonica mint, SM = Sacra Moneta, TS = Thessalonica.

    And it looks like you've got a dot, or some other control mark on the Constantine I VOT mint mark: dot, SIS, star.
     
  8. John Anthony

    John Anthony Ultracrepidarian

    I think you mean TS, which is also Thessalonica, and yes, it is a gamma, signifying the third officina. They didn't always include SM in the mint marks.
     
  9. RaceBannon

    RaceBannon Member

    So you think it's "T S Gamma" in ex?
     
  10. RaceBannon

    RaceBannon Member

    You might have solved the riddle for me JA. If it's dot TS dot Gamma dot. Then it would attribute as RIC VII, 19 I can't really tell if there are dots in between the mint mark letters though.
     
  11. John Anthony

    John Anthony Ultracrepidarian

    I was referring to the coin in post 45 in my last comment. All I see there is TS gamma. There may be dots, but the surface is kind of rough and it's hard to tell.
     
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