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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3617553, member: 98035&quot;]Great thread and coins all! [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER] you are more patient than I!</p><p><br /></p><p>I do tend to hang on to coins that are either an unexpected rarity, or that I can&#039;t identify. I did offload a large portion of my low grade coins a while back, but some I can&#039;t part with:</p><p><br /></p><p>Claudius II, FIDES EXERCI<b>TI</b></p><p>Fides standing left, head left, holding vertical standard and transverse standard (or maybe a trophy?)</p><p>Unpublished variant of RIC 34 - EXERCITI instead of EXERC or EXERCI</p><p>[ATTACH=full]969229[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve posted this one before; still a favorite!</p><p>Gallienus AE Antoninianus</p><p>GALLIENVS AVG, radiate bust right</p><p>DIANAE CONS AVG, stag walking left, <b>cross in exergue </b>(actually a slanted X)</p><p>Rome mint, 10th officina</p><p>RIC 179 (var left, X)</p><p><br /></p><p>This one raises the question... engraver&#039;s error, or a subversive Christian working in the mint?</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/gallienus-zoo-antelope-dianae-cons-avg-jpg.876608/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Constantine the Great, Campgate follis from Arles</p><p>PROVIDENTIAE <b>CAESS</b> / <b>T*AR</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Campgate mules are not unknown from this series, but not from Arles, as far as I have been able to tell. Furthermore, the 3rd officina at Arles only struck for Crispus and Constantine II during this time, so how did they even get a Constantine obverse die?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]969241[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This perplexing coin I found in one of the first junk lots I ever purchased; to this day I have not even been able to figure out which <i>civilization </i>produced it, let alone actually attribute it.</p><p>AE11, 0.77g</p><p>Helmeted bust right(?)</p><p>Vaguely Kushan-ish figure standing, holding thunderbolt and thingamabob</p><p>[ATTACH=full]969243[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And from the dark depths of my own personal rabbit hole...</p><p><br /></p><p>A common type 1.3 &quot;curved head&quot; except for the hair bun behind the ear - Here it is the more archaic six-pointed star when it should have been standardized to the four-pointed star.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]969246[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here the hair bun isn&#039;t there at all!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]969250[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A very late-type 1.4, but the nostril is a dot; it is a crescent on every other coin in the entire series, yet no other part of the coin indicates that this is bridging the gap to 1.5. My guess is that this is not an official coin.[ATTACH=full]969247[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And of course, this one from an entirely unpublished series that I am working through the nuances to publish</p><p>[ATTACH=full]969252[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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