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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eyestrain, post: 1186730, member: 24213&quot;]Interesting thing to find in a car.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a bronze coin of Constantine I. The type was struck in a variety of mints between about 311-316 AD. Perhaps someone with a copy of RIC can pinpoint the year more precisely.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the obverse we have a laureate head right (or perhaps pearl-diademed, I can&#039;t tell given the condition of the coin). The legend reads IMP C FL VAL CONSTANTINVS PF AVG, meaning Imperator Caesar Flavius Valerius Constantinus Pius Felix Augustus.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse shows Jupiter standing left, holding Victory on globe in right hand, long sceptre in left, with chlamys hanging over left shoulder and eagle at feet. It reads IOVI CONSERVATORI AVGG, meaning in plain English, Jupiter the Preserver of the Augusti (plural, because there was more than one emperor at the time).</p><p><br /></p><p>Then we have the exergue, the short legend at the bottom of reverse. It read SMHT (with an E in the right field of the reverse design, which actually pertains to what&#039;s in the exergue, so I&#039;ll mention it here). All together is means Sacra Moneta Heraclea Officina Epsilon or: Sacred Mint (or Money) Heraclea (HT is a less-seen code for that mint, but that&#039;s how I read it on this coin), Workshop 5. Heraclea is now modern-day Eregli, Turkey.</p><p><br /></p><p>To answer your next question: Nope, it ain&#039;t worth much, especially in that condition. To give you an idea, I have a similar one in better shape I got for five bucks.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still, the coolest thing I&#039;ve ever found in a car was an empty gum wrapper.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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