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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2568473, member: 56859&quot;]Hmm, I&#039;m not sure what you mean by &quot;...nothing on what is written below.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>From Tesorillo, here&#039;s a screen shot of the <a href="http://www.tesorillo.com/aes/_rev/index125i.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tesorillo.com/aes/_rev/index125i.htm" rel="nofollow">reverse type &quot;legend within wreath&quot;</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]555207[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin in question, from <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/another-coin-i-cannot-id.286395/#post-2567816" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/another-coin-i-cannot-id.286395/#post-2567816">post #8 above</a>, matches the reverse on the third row, 4th from left.&nbsp; Clicking that icon leads to a page that details all possible issues of that reverse and it explains the meaning of the legend within the wreath.</p><p><a href="http://www.tesorillo.com/aes/066/066i.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tesorillo.com/aes/066/066i.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.tesorillo.com/aes/066/066i.htm</a>&nbsp; Note that the two examples to the right of the one indicated (with Constantinopolis and VRBS Roma underneath) are not your coin because those are commemoratives which do not have an emperor&#039;s portrait on the obverse).</p><p><br /></p><p>You didn&#039;t give the measurements of the coin in post #8, but according to Tesorillo it will be an AE4, meaning less than 17 mm.&nbsp; Is that correct?&nbsp; What is the diameter of your coin?</p><p><br /></p><p>From that same page, the possibilities for your coin (without looking at your coin&#039;s obverse)&nbsp; become Constantius II, Constans, Gratian, Theodosius I, Valentinian II, and Arcadius.&nbsp; On that same page, for each of those rulers you&#039;ll find the obverse legends and mints.&nbsp; The mint abbreviations on that page do not take into account all of the ways each mint is written on a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t looked closely at your coin&#039;s obverse.&nbsp; Hopefully if enough of the obverse legend is readable you will be able to definitively identify the emperor on your coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Also, note that Victor Clark, who definitely knows his LRBs, already identified the coin in post #8 as Constantius II)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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