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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikjo0, post: 141882, member: 3565&quot;]I think they&#039;re all authentic bronze coins of Constantine the Great and his 3 sons,plus one later emperor Gratian</p><p>They are quite corroded from being in the ground which is why they look like they&#039;re cast.</p><p>#1 and #5 are standard coins of the sons with a depiction of a soldier spearing a fallen horseman with the legend FEL TEMP REPARATIO.</p><p>#2 is the City of Rome commemorative of 330 AD issued by Constantine himself.It shows the city&#039;s founders Romulus and Remus suckling on the she-wolf that raised them.The obverse reads VRBS ROMA or City of Rome.</p><p>#3 is a &quot;vota&quot; coin of Constans,the youngest son and the back reads XX VOT MVLT XXX</p><p>#4 is Gratian,DN GRATIANVS P F AVG,minted at Siscia and shows Gratian holding a Christian Chi-Rho and dragging a captive.GLORIA ROMANORVM on the obverse.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/bigpic.cgi?img=coins/./ric/gratian/_siscia_RIC_014cXVII.jpg&amp;ruler=./ric/gratian/i.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/bigpic.cgi?img=coins/./ric/gratian/_siscia_RIC_014cXVII.jpg&amp;ruler=./ric/gratian/i.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/bigpic.cgi?img=coins/./ric/gratian/_siscia_RIC_014cXVII.jpg&amp;ruler=./ric/gratian/i.html</a></p><p>You can go to Wildwinds.com and &quot;Imperial Coinage by Ruler&quot; scroll down to Constantine II,Constantius and Constans one at a time,click on &quot;show page with thumbnails&quot; and scroll down to see all the coin types they issued.Hopefully you&#039;ll find matches.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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