[ATTACH] Unknown mint, 4th century A.D. Barbarous imitation of Constantine the Great, VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP reverse type. Obv: Gibberish -...
Most likely the person engraving the die was illiterate. He had probably cut several dies before someone who could read caught the error.
Working? You call this work?
It's been a while since I researched this. I should probably do so again. Calling it "unpublished" may no longer be accurate: [IMG] Provincial...
Your choices are A, B, Gamma, Delta or Epsilon. It doesn't look like any of those. You'll probably just need to go with "Blundered officina mark."
Gosh, Doug. Where do you live that you have access to so many great coin shows? I would love to pick through bags of coins like those you...
Yeah, well, look at the size of the middle finger he's displaying on the right. Looks pretty rude to me.
A Spock coin! Cool! I once had a Spock coin of Constantine the Great: [IMG] [IMG]
One thing I discovered by accident is that you can display Greek letters in HTML by typing "&", the name of the letter with the first letter...
Actually, modern scholarship interprets Libertas on this coin as meaning "Jump through the hoops, Everyone."
Here's my Constantine example of the OP type: [IMG] Carthage mint, A.D. 306 RIC 51c Obv: FL VAL CONSTANTINVS NOB CAES Rev: SALVIS AVGG ET CAESS...
It is similar to other issues from Antioch during this era. It is not the same as the asses issued in Rome. I may be wrong about this, but I don't...
Byzantine coins were routinely overstruck on coins of earlier emperors. When a new emperor assumed the puyrple, he frequently recalled coins from...
Yes, the Phoenix is a possibility. The double diadem on the obverse bust suggests it is from the early-mid 4th century. See if you can make out...
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Yes, it's a different coin. Do you mean a different reverse? Denomination? Value?
In that case, I think it's probably an imperial issue.
Perhaps something to hold two pieces of leather together on a cuirass?
Does it look like the inscription is of Latin or Greek letters? I don't see an "SC" on the reverse, so I wonder if the coin is provincial. By...
Looks like there's an "A" under the horse. Not sure what that means. It could be Philip II, but the lettering looks too distorted to yield a...
If it's Philip it would look something like ΦIΛΛIPOY
Separate names with a comma.
