A few Constantinian LRB's

Got these beauties for a real good price, under $30 for the lot. I originally only wanted the coin with Lupa on it, but the other two were just too beautiful to pass on.




Feel free to show off your coins.

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

Three very nice coins MM and for under $30? Who wouldn't love them all?

 

Certainly the nicest bronze coins I own! Though that's not saying too much from a guy who specializes in Late Roman Silver.

 

Man, I tell ya... 10 BUCKS a throw! For Ancients, that always AMAZES me... 1500 year old coins! That kind of condition on a boring US Cent or Nickel, recent mintage, would cost a LOT more!

 

solid LRB MM!

are the standards joined together on the bottom of the second coin? looks interesting.

 

I think it's a shield at the bottom in between the two.

 

Spectacular MM

 

Thanks Pish.

 

Very nicely done! Beautiful examples, every one.

So, what's your secret to finding beautiful and cheap LRBs? (I would like to acquire a few to pass around in my World History classes; I just purchased a few inexpensive Han, Tang and Song Dynasty cash coins for the same purpose... gotta get the students excited about the past somehow!).

 

Wow MM those are great. This is not my area of collecting either but those are lovely. Also, welcome back. You were missed.

 

Thanks!
I got these off eBay, I'll PM you the name of the dealer who sold me these, he currently has a few Folles for a decent price.

Thanks bud!

 

That's a nice score, congrats!

 

Thanks, Magnus, I'll look forward to hearing from you. Cheers!

 

It's part of the mint mark, the series runs from RIC VII Arles 353 to Arles 357.

 

We're talking about the middle one, right? I like to collect these and I've never seen one with the "thing" in the middle (I haven't seen a lot). I've seen palms like the first one. I don't have RIC so I can't look it up. Unless I missed it, I didn't see it on Wildwinds. What RIC describe it as?

 

Well I don't really know what it is then?
Perhaps @John Anthony has an idea.

 

Those are some protrusions that you find on the bottom of the standards sometimes - I don't know exactly what they are. In the case of the second coin, they're touching each other in such a way as to suggest a shield, but that's only coincidental.

They are all three lovely coins! Here's one of my two-soldiers-two-standards from Arles, but of Constans...

 

I believe they're handles to facilitate carrying or removal of a standard that has been stuck into the ground. The standards are sometimes depicted with these handles or without, and on those coins that have them they sometimes meet. However, I've never seen one with a second handle below the first one like in OP coin #2. Maybe someone else more familiar with LRBs has?

 

As I said in my earlier post the bottom mark between the standards on the middle coin is a field mint mark, in the same way that the frond is on the OP and the dotted wreath in John Antony's example is. It is a ' U ' which is the Arelate mint mark for the RIC VII series numbers 353 - 357 inclusive, with this example being 353.

 

Thanks for clearing that up, tbc.