A very common type can be pleasing

A common coin but well struck and pleasing on the eye, it has that lovely pea green colour that is hard to capture.
Constantine ii
Obverse - CONSTANTINVSIVNNOBC
Reverse - GLOR IAEXERC ITVS
RIC vii 539p

 

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Very nice coin and great thread @Valentinian ! It is more tough for me as I really do not collect the more common coins!

I have a bad habit of liking the niche, uncommon, hard-to-find, somewhat "who-cares?" type coins! Most of my collecting habits are not always main-stream, rather more the historical coins as well as the backwater histories too. I really do not get too excited how numismatically beautiful they are, rather, are they a placemarker in history (hear that @norenxaq ?)

Everytime I found one in my database, it is not what folks would normally collect here, or is to uncommon...

I do not collect much past the 1st C CE, and my LRB's are pretty ragged...

I will try o post a couple to fit the thread:

BOTTLECAP - I just thought this was cool:

Seleukid Demetrios I Soter 162-150 BCE AE 17 serrate 16.8mm 3.9g Antioch on Orontes mint Horse Hd L - Elephant Hd R- SC 1646 SNG Spaer 1299-1304


In-hand this is very nice. Got this from @John Anthony :

RI Constantine I CE 306-337 Æ Follis 19mm 3.2g Siscia CE 326-7 AVG Laureate R - PROVIDENTIAE AVGG Camp gate 2 turrets no door star RIC 200

Purdy, but not my collecting interest.

Rome VRBS ROMA commem 330-331 CE Æ reduced centenionalis, 16mm, 2.5g, 12h; Trier mint, AD 330-331 She-wolf RIC VII 529

This is from the SteveX6 collection:

Makedon Philip II AE 18 Apollo - Youth Horseback spear hd below 359-356 BCE RIGHT-RIGHT 18mm 6.2g SNG ANS 850-1


These are fairly common RR AR Denarii:

RR Aemilius Scaurus and Plautius Hypsaeus 58 BC AR Denarius camel scorpion quadriga 4.1g 19mm Rome Cr 422-1b

One of my first RR Denarii... pretty common, and not an ugly one:

RR M Furius LF Philus AR Denarius 119 BCE Janus Sear 156

 

I also have a Julian double majorina, yes a common coin but I find the patina quite pleasing. I also like the reverse with the APIS bull.