[ATTACH] Constantine I A.D. 307 29mm 9.3g FL VAL CONSTANTINVS NOB C; laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. GENIO POP ROM; Genius...
it's a centering dot, which was used in the engraving process...very common on some Late Roman bronze types....
I have this one [ATTACH] Aurelian A.D. 270- 275 IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG; radiate & cuirassed bust left. SOLI INVICTO•; Sol stg. left, right hand...
Yes, it is RIC VII Alexandria 37. The amount of rows has no bearing on the RIC number.
With shipping, this one was just shy of $300 https://www.albertozecchi.com/
I have one and it is very nice quality. [ATTACH]
lighthouse trays-- [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
There is a series of mine coins info and pic from CNG-- Under Trajan and Hadrian several series of bronze quadrantes were struck in the names of...
I had to resurrect this thread because I was sorting through some LRB's and found this campgate with 18 rows. [ATTACH] Constantine I A.D. 328-9...
[ATTACH] ROMAN REPUBLIC. T. Carisius, 46 B.C. AR Denarius. Bust of Victory / Victory in quadriga. Cr.464/5. Carisia.3
This is one of my favorites because it was slabbed as official. It shows how easily some of these unofficial issues could have circulated and...
it's from Siscia
they are sideburns...he also sometimes has a moustache during this hair phase, There is a clear moustache on your first coin, from Siscia. Here is...
or they are actually ostriches [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] an older thread on the now extinct Arabian ostrich...
online resources are great if you just want a catalogue number...which is kind of funny if you do not actually have the book. Most of the RIC...
check acsearch...they have several dozen examples-- some recent, some further back.
Your coin does not have a star in the mintmark, but a dot in the exergue. The author of RIC, Patrick Bruun, mentions this coin in the footnotes....
It Rome mint-- SM leaf RB
I've got an example of the earliest Licinius campgate with SMHT mintmark [ATTACH]
I also agree that it is unofficial. I have had some good style unofficial coins copying Ticinum, like the two below. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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