I like cherrypicking for Late LRBCs, & I'm a bit of a sucker for Valentinian III. If you're not overly worried about grade then there's all kinds of fun, rare coins hiding, un- or missattributed, in cheap lots. It's great practice, inexpensive & exciting. I just picked this up off Ebay, from Numismatiklanz, in with a lot of zapped floor-sweepings for a couple bucks; this was the only coin I was interested in. It is not nice (please do not clean coins down to bare-bones like this. Whatever it looked like before would have been better), but I'm pretty sure it's a rarer Valentinian III type; RIC X 2142 or 2143 (Majorian is also technically a possibility, 2620 & 2621, but much less likely & less of a match & I gotta draw the line somewhere). Not an easy type to find, in any condition, and one of the few AE of Val. III that I don't/didn't have so, ugly as it is, it'll do for a placeholder. Provided that really is what it is, I haven't convinced myself yet. Re; VICTO-AVG or VAGT (or similar)-VICTOR (VICTORI-IA AVGGG for Majorian) Emp. Stg. F., Hd. L, dragging kneeling Barb. to R. & holding standard in L. Ob: DN VALENTINIANO (Mj17 or Mj18 for Majorian) P.-Diad. Dr. & Cuir. bust R. 1.0 g 13mm X 11.5mm AE3/4 Ragged & chunky flan (typical), does not seem cut down from a larger coin. I'm not 100% sure about this one. It could just be an oddly small & light example of the much more common GLORIA ROMANORVM with the same devices type, or even an immitation of it. But I don't think so. The official ones average around 2.5 g & 18mm, & it doesn't look like an immitation. The fabric seems right, too; the coins of this group, after the probable mint-hiatus & switch to V10/V11 Ob, have pretty distinct flans. But who knows? Not a lot of accessible pictures of other examples out there to compare it to. Anybody have one, either variety of the type? Or even for Majorian? I'd very much appreciate you posting a pic, if so. Opinions, thoughts & input welcome. Just to stress this, please do not zap & Jax ancient coins. I get you can't mess with all the little junk if you're selling at quantity, & zapping & Jaxing is quick & easy. But simply doing nothing to the coins would be better. If you're just gonna be left with junk anyway, why bother?
