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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 8087392, member: 84744&quot;]The places to look for these online is [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER]&#039;s <a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/index.html" rel="nofollow">Esty&#039;s Guide to Late Roman AE</a>, and Tesorillo&#039;s <a href="https://www.tesorillo.com/aes/home.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.tesorillo.com/aes/home.htm" rel="nofollow">Identifying Late Roman Bronze Coins</a>.&nbsp; The <a href="https://www.nummus-bible-database.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.nummus-bible-database.com" rel="nofollow">Nummus Bible</a> is also helpful.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just looking at Warren Esty&#039;s guide, the trick with these Victory advancing with wreath types is distinguishing type 55 from type 66, and then identifying the emperor.&nbsp; Basically if you can establish some variation of SALVS REIPVBLICE as the reverse legend, it&#039;s Val III, type 66.&nbsp; Or it could be Galla Placidia, which is in fact what I have (based on some portrait details):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1405271[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Yours looks to be some version of VICTORIA AVGG(G), which means it&#039;s type 55.&nbsp; In principle it could be Honorius (S), Theodosius II (R4), Johannes (R4), or Valentinian III (S).&nbsp; Warren has several photos of both of the more common ones, Honorius and Val III, here: <a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/type55i.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/type55i.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/type55i.html</a></p><p>I actually own one of the Honorius coins on that page:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1405275[/ATTACH]</p><p>I guess there&#039;s just enough legend to ID it as Honorius, though personally I can&#039;t be 100% sure of that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then there are Vandal imitations, which make things a lot more complicated.&nbsp; I think that&#039;s what this is, though again I&#039;m not 100% sure:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1405276[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Overall these types are very difficult!!&nbsp; Probably yours is either Honorius or Valentinian III, but I don&#039;t think it&#039;s possible to tell which. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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