Ancient ID help #2

We can just drop it and I won't come back around the ancient section.

 

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No need to leave, I guess just keep the post frequency a little lower and the ID helps a little more challenging

 

It bears repeating that everyone's expertise is different... What is obvious to one person may not be the same for another. Especially to someone who doesn't collect ancients.

 

If someone knows very little, about ancient coins, then it seems like, all ancient coins would be difficult, for the person to identify. And, if someone knows very little, about ancient coins, then the person may not have any idea, whether an ancient coin is easy to identify, or difficult to identify. It seemed like @AdamL knew very little about ancient coins, and he was just asking for some help. Yes, he broke the CoinTalk Ancients unwritten rule about not posting more than 2 threads per day. But, I think it was because, he has not spent much time on the Ancients forum, and he is unfamiliar with our ways. In his first thread today, titled "Ancient ID help #1 (and green spot)", he asked if anyone knew, of any good reference books for ancient Roman coins. And a couple of persons gave him some good information. It seems like @AdamL is merely guilty of being a newbie to Ancients. I hope, that he will come back, to the Ancients forum, in the future.

 

I get your points, but if a coin clearly has “VALENTINIANVS” on it, it would seem to be clear that it would be an easy google search to at least get close.

 

Maybe. The coin says "DNVALENTINI" on the left side of the Emperor's head, and "ANVSPFAVG" on the right side of the Emperor's head. It seems like, the lack of spaces, and the break in the middle, could make it more difficult, for someone who knows very little about ancient Roman coins, and doesn't know to look for the "DN" and "PF AVG", and is not very familiar with the names of various Roman Emperors. And individual letters on ancient coins, are sometimes difficult to read. Especially on small coins, where the letters are small, and were created on the die by hand.

 

Thanks again guys. I truly know almost nothing about ancients and do have a hard time reading the legends. I have to strain my eyes even for the easy ones.

And I understand what I did "wrong" and learned from it. It's just that all someone has to do is say, "It's proper etiquette to (fill in the blank)" Lesson learned.

But when someone is rude to a newbie who didn't know better, I just don't get it. I've been saddened at how much of it I've seen in the U.S. coin forum since coming back around. It REALLY turns off new collectors. The lesson learned from THAT type of reaction is to not post until you know a lot. But asking the most basic of questions is a step in that process. So what do you do? And thank you for sand for pointing out that I asked for book suggestions in my first post. My only objective was to learn, and I didn't know where to start.

 

There are three emperors who were named Valentinian. Which one is it?

There was another coin of Constans. Personally, I had a hard time at first telling apart Constantius Chlorus, Constantius II, Constans, Constantine I, Constantine II, Constantius Gallus, etc. And logically, why wouldn't Constans be an abbreviated form of another name?

 

If you Google Constans you generally only find one emperor