Looking For Identification Help, 7 Coins

Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by Lon Chaney, Nov 14, 2023.

  1. Lon Chaney

    Lon Chaney Well-Known Member

    This is a last ditch effort. These last 7 unidentified coins in my collection will either become truly a part of my collection or to eBay they go.
    Anyway, if anyone is able to help identify these low grade bronzes, I would be quite grateful. I can provide additional photos if needed. Thanks! PXL_20231115_030555364.jpg PXL_20231115_030645579.jpg
     
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  3. Victor_Clark

    Victor_Clark all my best friends are dead Romans Dealer

    The top coin looks like an unofficial FEL TEMP REPARATIO fallen horseman.

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    here's is an official example; but yours is much smaller and very crude which means it is unofficial.


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  4. Parthicus

    Parthicus Well-Known Member

    In the second row, the leftmost coin portrait resembles Antoninus Pius, and the reverse of large SC was often used on coins from Antioch. Portrait on the middle coin of that row looks like an Antonine (A. Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus, or Commodus) but not A. Pius (so one of the other three). These are just my gut opinions and are probably worth what you paid for them.
     
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  5. GinoLR

    GinoLR Well-Known Member

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    1 : late 4th century imitation of a FEL TEMP REPARATIO coin, fallen horseman type.

    2 : Antoninus Pius (138-161), as of Antioch on the Orontes (Syria) reverse large SC in wreath

    3 : Constantius II, FEL TEMP REPARATIO coin, fallen horseman type (minted 348-360, probably in Antioch because of portrait style and general context)

    4 : Mamluks of Egypt, fals (13th-14th c.), six-pointed star type

    5 : Nabataea, 1st c. BC. Syllaios? (not 100% sure about this one)

    6 : Arados (Syria), late 2nd c. BC. Jugate heads of Zeus and Hera (or Astarte) / prow of ship with date in Phoenician script

    7 : Caracalla (198-217), Carrhae (Mesopotamia). Rev. crescent.

    Your dealer must be from Jordan or Palestinian territories, it's the kind of coins which circulated in this area from the 1st c. BC to the middle-ages. None has any value today for collectors because they are not in good condition.
     
  6. Lon Chaney

    Lon Chaney Well-Known Member

    Awesome thanks everyone! And particularly @GinoLR
    I'm asking the right crowd, that's for sure. Yes, I bought these probably 5 years ago in a larger lot of mostly LRB that I could identify with help from resources. These were the holdouts. The one in a 2x2 was from a different lot.
     
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