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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3215282, member: 19463&quot;]TIF is right but failed to say why.&nbsp; Many Roman and Byzantine coin legends end with PF AVG or Pius Felix Augustus.&nbsp; You have AG.&nbsp; Byzantines cut corners. Titles do less to help with the ID than names so TIF correctly sent you to the side with four clear letters following DN that will help a lot.&nbsp;&nbsp; Your coin also has a pretty clear mintmark &#039;in exergue&#039; or under the ground line on the reverse.&nbsp; Many issues used a year date but some earlier ones like yours has crosses rather than ANNO XXII or some such.&nbsp; This is a clue.&nbsp; Compare coins that have crosses.&nbsp; Your coin has a bust facing right but many used forward facing portraits.&nbsp; This will allow you to narrow it down but your emperor made some coins both ways so this is not as cut and dried as you might like.&nbsp;&nbsp; Below is a coin NOT of your emperor and not from your mint city but that shows the general layout.&nbsp; Your coin is not Anastasius and not Constantinople so I can show you this one without ruining your work. Under the large M is a smaller letter E.&nbsp; Your coin had one, too, but it might have been anything from A to E showing the workshop that made the coin. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]835915[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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