Do you know these two sites? They have been awesome in helping me ID my ancients. https://www.tesorillo.com/aes/home.htm http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/
Constantius II A.D. 327- 329 FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C; Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust left. PROVIDEN-TIAE CAESS; camp gate with two turrets and star between them, in left field • in ex. SMH[?] RIC VII Heraclea 97 The last letter in the mintmark is either a A or Δ, most likely delta as it is most common.
Hey, Congratulations @paddyman98! I was there in your shoes exactly 2 years ago when I discovered ancients and had no idea what things were. Just wanted to give you some tips to continue developing into the hobby: (1) There are numerous website out there where you can learn about ancients (as others have pointed out above), including here on CoinTalk, so I suggest you make a folder in your favorites with all these links and read away. (2) For identification, there are many sites, but take the legends and go on one of them (I use http://numismatics.org/ocre/results) and try and find the coin yourself. It is super exciting. There are some rarities, oddities, and worn coins that would benefit from having more experienced eyes look at them. I think you could've handled this one though. I really encourage you to pursue an education in ancients in addition to being the new steward for these beautiful coin. I also can't wait to see where your collecting interests end up in a year or two. That is one nice looking Constantius II campgate.
http://www.catbikes.ch/coinstuff/coinlinks.htm There are many places to go on the web. Keeping up with what is added and goes dead is a problem but the information is out there.
@paddyman98 Shouldn't you be over in the error forum? maybe it's a "double die". Be careful with the ancients, they can be addicting