Good evening, I'm in the process of researching about 20 later Roman Bronzes in the Constantinian to Valentinian era. that were found in southwest England. The range so far is Maximianus to Gratian, with a majority of the coins issued under Constantine I and his sons. Two points: 1. It's fascinating that trade within the empire resurged to such an extent that many coins from the East are found in England in this time. And to such an extent that they are lost (or left) with quite a bit of frequency. The story behind this simple lot of metal detector finds is likely pretty incredible. 2. When looking at many, similar types of coins attributing gets extremely confusing. When each of the emperors and each of the mints make similar reverses like Concordia Militvm, GLORIA ROMANORVM, Fel Temp Reparatio any missing information makes the attribution difficult. Which makes me things there must also have been lots of counterfeiting. I've gotten comfortable with 10/20 of them but was curious if anyone wanted to help my weary eyes. Is this AS {as in ASIS) or could it be RS: Blown up, but yes not coming through clearly: Here is another coin where the A in the mintmark ends up looking boxy (I believe the below is RIC VII Siscia 252, but I'm not certain about this one either as the reverse looks crude and I can't see the flag): Let me know if you can ID either of these, and please post your late Roman bronze finds from the UK. Thanks!
They are both from Siscia. The first coin is •ASIS• Your second coin is ASIS, but if I am seeing a Chi-Rho on the reverse banner, which is not very clear from here, it is Constantine II.
