I have a very small collection of ancient coins that were given to me many years ago by a family friend, no doubt to stimulate an interest in numismatics (and if so, he was successful!). About half are labeled, and half are unidentified, at least to me. I would really appreciate your help identifying these coins so that I can label and re-holder all of them (all the holders are extremely brittle and cracking now). Here's an album with the best-quality scans my printer was capable of. I also have a handful of late medieval or perhaps renaissance coins (I'm not sure what the correct period to label them would be), and scanned those too. I'd love to hear your input on any of these coins, since I know virtually nothing about this part of my collection.
Yes - Victory and Spearhead as - Cr. 145/1 - mine is here: http://www.tantaluscoins.com/coins/113274.php
Good coins. It will be easier for everyone if you posted each coin individually within the thread, many folks don’t like clicking on in own links. the second coin from the left on the bottom row is a Claudius II
Any cellphone camera these days will give you far better photos than a scanner. If you do take photos of these coins and post them individually, please try to photograph both sides of each coin.
Hi, Some of the labeled ones are now in the wrong flips. The first one in the Claudius flip should be in the Seleucid flip. The one in the Seleucid flip should be in the Maronea flip. The Judaea and the Macedon are in the correct flips. The coins in the Constans and Maronea flips I can’t make out with these images. - Broucheion
Well, looks like that's one identified! Thanks for the link, that site looks like it has a ton of useful reference info. Thanks! Do you know what particular type or denomination this one is? Will do, I'll try to take good photos of each coin tomorrow. My phone has a horrid camera, unfortunately, but I'll borrow my wife's (which I assume is significantly better). I had no idea, I wonder how that happened. Thanks for pointing it out, I'll take photos of these coins too tomorrow and post them all here. I'm confident we can get it all sorted out!
The Claudius II is an antoninianus or radiate denomination. Historically it was valued at two denarius, but over the years the denarius was abolished and the ant’s value steadily decreasing until it too was abolished in favor of some other types.Reverse is VICTORIAAVG.
The left facing Maxentius is interesting. Most all of the CONSERV VRBS SVAE coins portray the emperor facing right, with the exception of this rarer (consular bust)type. Maxentius AD 307-312, Æ Follis, Aquileia Mint O: IMP MAXENTIVS P F AVG CONS, laureate bust left in imperial mantle, left hand holding eagle-tipped scepter. R: CONSERV VRBS SVAE, Roma seated facing, head left, within hexastyle temple, right hand holding globe and scepter; shield by side; knobs as acroteria and star in pediment. AQ(P) in exergue RIC VI 124; Sear 14984 The obverse legend on this coin ends with CONS meaning Maxentius was Consul for the first time; and this happened on 20 April 308.
Awesome info, thank you very much! I just finished taking photos of all the coins (hopefully they're better than the scans were) and uploaded them to Imgur, so I'll start a new thread with all the images as well as all the info I currently have on each coin.