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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 1439178, member: 26430&quot;]N.B. I stopped cleaning/restoring this coins as soon as I recognized it was something special. So beware that it is still &quot;ucleaned.&quot; Cleaned it should show as much detail on the reverse as on the obverse laureate crown.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is not ordinary Constantine The Great VLPP (VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP, Twin Victories inscribing a shield over altar) coin. The reverse looks it, though the legends are not the in the Latin alphabet (Koine Greek, I think, the lingua franca of the northern Mediterannean ancient world, as I understand it). The obverse&#039;s major device appears to be a nice helmeted Constantinopolis (from Contantine&#039;s commemorative city coins). Again the legend is...well, weird.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any ideas??[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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