Your coin is RIC 435, workshop S is rated as c3
Yor coin is actually Constantine II. The obverse is CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C. It is a very common coin, and not in great shape. Value depends on who...
The coin you linked to from Wildwinds sold for $41. It is in a bit better shape than yours, and also sold by CNG though. Here is a link to website...
It is an Islamic token, which I know nothing about. It looks like the kabbah, though. It is dated 1338 AH or AD 1919. It may have been a souvenir...
I wouldn't be surprised if the coins the soldier had were just tourist fakes.
Yes, it is a great website with important primary sources.
Thanks James, I enjoy VLPP's...probably too much!
I am doing a leisurely die study of Constantine's VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP from Siscia and just got a new example in today. It is RIC VII...
No, it is not. Denarii are silver, while that coin is bronze. LRB's (Late Roman Bronze) are usually designated according to size. First you start...
Your second coin is Constans A.D. 348-350 D N CONSTA-NS P F AVG pearl diademed, draped, & cuirassed bust left, holding globe in right hand...
Not only does it look like Valens, it clearly says VALENS on the obverse! :)
Your first coin is actually Valens. DN VALEN-S PF AVG SECVRITAS-REIPVBLICAE It is from Thessalonica, and your exergue looks like TESA. RIC IX...
Someone had posted one of these elsewhere, but no one had any info other than it being a jeton.
I have been collecting coins of some sort for over thirty years, but the 12 yr old collector I was, does not even bear comparison to the 42 yr old...
You can seal saflips with an impulse heat sealer.
Hello James, that is a nice example. I like that on London examples Sol sometimes bears a resemblance to an American Indian wearing a war bonnet.
You don't know what the winners maximum bid was for, though. He might have put in a max bid of say $150, so even if you had bid $39 or $40, you...
On Moneta-L, one member has uploaded templates for flips, which he made in Word. These are located in the files section. You should be able to...
Nice is not a word I would use to describe that coin. It is closer to being a slug than it is to being nice. There was an honest dealer that...
This is one of my favorite unlisted coins. It has an unlisted officina, and is unrecorded with a horseman leaping over a fallen enemy inscribed on...
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