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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Harry G, post: 8206596, member: 105282&quot;]Possibly... I&#039;ve had a look under a microscope, but it&#039;s difficult to see what might be after the last line of the N (whether it is a C or just part of the cuirass), as it&#039;s off the flan. I can find one example of an FL IVL CONSTANTIVS N C coin, and it&#039;s an imitation on the Augustus Coins website</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/imitGE.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/imitGE.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/imitGE.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>(About 4/5 down the page)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks! It didn&#039;t occur to me they might be imitations - I guess I&#039;m just too used to dealing with crummy barbarous radiates <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, a lot of the coins they came with appear to be official, and all are of good style. They are all almost certainly from the same hoard. In that case, they probably did pass as official coins. Most of the coins are Constantine I, Constantine II, Constantius II, Constans, and some of Helena</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that I look at them, a couple of the coins exhibit some signs that they might be imitations.</p><p><br /></p><p>This one has TRC (rather than TRP or PLC) mintmark</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1438626[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>R•S mintmark (this one in not so great a shape)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1438628[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Others, however, I suspect are probably official. This is one of the few coins from the lot <i>not </i>from Trier mint (and is from Constantinople instead). It has an interesting design on the shield on the reverse (maybe the rivets in the wood?). The wreath in the left field is also possibly too intricate for an imitation. Unfortunately, the obverse is corroded</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1438637[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Others are just of good style and are pretty well struck, and also include some officina marks on the reverse (in the exergue or centre field)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1438640[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Two palms</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1438643[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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