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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24880001, member: 26430&quot;]Great little Arcadius with beautiful green patina! I absolutely adore late Roman AE4s and passionately believe they get FAR too little love. I squirrel away as many as I can get my hands on... (But I love all tiny ancients -- whether AE, AR, or AV/EL, and from all cultures, Archaic Greek to Byzantine.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I collect &quot;barbarians, captives, and enemies&quot; on Roman coins, so I can never get enough of the common Victories-dragging-captives:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1597402[/ATTACH]</p><p>That captive (Theo-Cyzicus) is kneeling w/ two bindings extending from a neck collar down to a waist harness in front.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, some mints showed the captive crouching/standing while being dragged instead, as on the Arcadius-Thessalonica specimen below:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1597414[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Incidentally, here&#039;s one of the same type &amp; mint as the OP coin, but Theodosius instead of Arcadius (and my reverse isn&#039;t as good):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1597415[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This little Constantinian imitation from Britain must be some kind of record for the tiniest brockage at 10mm &amp; only 0.43g! Ex Martin Wettmark error collection:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1597400[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition to all tiny ones being rare, brockages are especially scarce for the very late Roman empire (below, Theodosius). Also ex-Wettmark:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1597401[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Once you get to the &quot;Byzantine&quot; period (i.e., Anastasius forward) people usually stop calling them AE4s and instead stick to &quot;minima&quot; and &quot;Nummi.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>But they&#039;re clearly in the same in the same tradition, even borrowing the same designs, such as Justinian&#039;s tiny VOT-in-wreath types from Carthage:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1597407[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>(Both about 10-11mm, 1g -- the one below is just a small image.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Note that they seem to have misunderstood the concept, using the legend to date the coins to Regnal Years 13 (above) &amp; 14 (below) -- rather than making &quot;vows&quot; for future years of rule! </p><p><br /></p><p>(The [half?] Siliquae, &quot;VOT MVLT HTI,&quot; are&nbsp; even further divorced from the original concept -- but has anyone ever explained what the HTI means?)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1597411[/ATTACH]</p><p>These coins are part of my <a href="https://conservatoricoins.com/showcase-coin-justinian-plague-follis-constantinople-540-1-ad/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://conservatoricoins.com/showcase-coin-justinian-plague-follis-constantinople-540-1-ad/" rel="nofollow">&quot;Justinian Plague&quot; subcollection (my 2021 blog post)</a>, which hit North Africa in RY 14 (prob. including Carthage), and in RY 15 hit the capital and the important &quot;mainland&quot; Byzantine-Eurasian cities, devastating the Empire, reshaping Western history, and scarring Justinian for life.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I could keep going indefinitely, so hopefully people post some more and I&#039;ll share one or two or a few more....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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