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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LukeGob, post: 23077557, member: 73885&quot;]I like cherrypicking for Late LRBCs, &amp; I&#039;m a bit of a sucker for Valentinian III. If you&#039;re not overly worried about grade then there&#039;s all kinds of fun, rare coins hiding, un- or missattributed, in cheap lots. It&#039;s great practice, inexpensive &amp; 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&#039;m pretty sure it&#039;s a rarer Valentinian III type; RIC X 2142 or 2143 (Majorian is also technically a possibility, 2620 &amp; 2621, but much less likely &amp; less of a match &amp; 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&#039;t/didn&#039;t have so, ugly as it is, it&#039;ll do for a placeholder. Provided that really is what it is, I haven&#039;t convinced myself yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1545699[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1545700[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Re; VICTO-AVG or VAGT (or similar)-VICTOR</p><p>(VICTORI-IA AVGGG for Majorian)</p><p>Emp. Stg. F., Hd. L, dragging kneeling Barb. to R. &amp; holding standard in L.</p><p>Ob: DN VALENTINIANO</p><p>(Mj17 or Mj18 for Majorian)</p><p>P.-Diad. Dr. &amp; Cuir. bust R.</p><p>1.0 g</p><p>13mm X 11.5mm AE3/4</p><p>Ragged &amp; chunky flan (typical), does not seem cut down from a larger coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not 100% sure about this one. It could just be an oddly small &amp; light example of the much more common GLORIA ROMANORVM with the same devices type, or even an immitation of it. But I don&#039;t think so. The official ones average around 2.5 g &amp; 18mm, &amp; it doesn&#039;t look like an immitation. The fabric seems right, too; the coins of this group, after the probable mint-hiatus &amp; 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&#039;d very much appreciate you posting a pic, if so. Opinions, thoughts &amp; input welcome.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just to stress this, please do not zap &amp; Jax ancient coins. I get you can&#039;t mess with all the little junk if you&#039;re selling at quantity, &amp; zapping &amp; Jaxing is quick &amp; easy. But simply doing nothing to the coins would be better. If you&#039;re just gonna be left with junk anyway, why bother?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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