Roman coins I got off eBay from a lot

Please identify the emperor, the type of coin, and the value

 

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Just a thought - Why don't you stop buying coins off ebay and take the time to learn about what you have already instead of just posting all your threads asking everyone else to do your work for you?

 

We'd need better pictures. If you really want useful help then get into the habit of taking the coins out of their holders, photographing both sides, and including the size and weight. All I can tell from the photos that you sent is that the coins are probably late Roman bronzes, if genuine, and not particularly valuable, maybe somewhere in the $5 - $15 range.

 

If you want us to take the time and effort to identify your coin for you, you should take the time and effort to make it possible.

Take it out of the holder and photograph it up-close (it's totally okay to hold ancient coins in your hands; they aren't MS-70 proofs), cropping the photos to get rid of extraneous space. It's unidentifiable under current circumstances.

You want to post images like this:

 

Ditto!!!!!!!!

 

I tried to look the coin up but couldn't find anything that looked like mine

 

The backside is blank

 

If the back is blank the coins are probably just replicas, not genuine.

 

Well the backside is not blank almost looks blank, very worn

 

It's a very inexpensive late Roman bronze, probably from the Constantine era, worth about $1 in a bargain bin.

 

Sorry for the upside picture its from my phone so I dont know why it flipped

 

Here are a few specific pointers I think will help you help yourself when it comes to identifying ancient coins.

1. Buy a caliper to measure the diameter of your coins. These can be purchased on Amazon for as little as $3 for the non-digital type which would work just fine. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/ref=is_s_ss_i_0_7?k=caliper&sprefix=caliper
2. Buy a scale to accurately determine the weight of your new coins. These are not hard to find on Amazon and sell for around $10-$20. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/ref=is_s_ss_i_0_13?k=coin+scale&sprefix=jewelry+scale
3. Take decent pictures. Pictures from a cell phone should be fine for ID purposes but you need to take the coins out of the holder as stated above. I suggest that you set the coin on a blank sheet of paper in a well lit area (either lamps pointed directly at the coin or even better would be natural sunlight) and put your phone on a stack of books and adjust height till you can get the coin in focus. Then crop the photo to just the coin; repeat process for reverse side of coin.
4. Post one coin per thread with a photo of both sides of the coin, diameter and weight. Then you should get plenty of help from the great members of this forum.

Oh and I almost forgot... welcome to the dark side