My first Procopius

I bought this bronze coin of Procopius. I would appreciate any your opinion on in. Post your Procopius coins.
Diameter 17 mm. Weight 3 gr.
I think it is:
PROCOPIUS (365-366). Ae. Heraclea.
Obv: D N PROCOPIVS P F AVG.
Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust left.
Rev: REPARATIO FEL TEMP / SMHA.
Procopius standing left, head right, holding labarum and resting hand upon shield.

 

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Don't have one yet - need to fill in that slot in my collection. Nice coin, congrats on the acquisition.

 

i have several lrbs i haven't id'd yet and may have one or two of this fellow...i've been meaning to do that for 10 years or so

 

Procopius is a scarce emperor. He used to be rarer, but the fall of the Iron Curtain led to a flood of late Roman coins from the Balkans that the author of RIC IX had not known about in 1933. Here is a page devoted to coins of Procopius:

http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/type7.html
That page links to this page of images:
http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/type7i.html

 

I do not know much of them, but I do have a Procopius:


RI Procopius 365-366 AE3

 

Oh, cool, our Procopiuses don't seem to get out much!

You can see that I did not choose this one for its reverse...

 

Here's mine. I was pretty excited to get this coin... it's not the greatest shape but still fun to look at. I love this guy's story and think it would make a great movie. Nothin' left to loose so... let's go all in huh...

Procopius AE3. AD 366.
D N PROCO-PIVS P F AVG, Diademed bust left, draped & cuirassed
REPARTI-O (Chi-Rho) FEL TEMP, Procopius in military attire, standing front, head turned right, holding spear & shield behind left leg & Labarum in right hand
SMHB. in ex.
Heraclea R2
RIC 7

 

Cool

 

Nice coin of an emperor I am still missing.

Like Valentinian says, coins of Procopius used to be quite scarce - they certainly were when I started collecting romans in the mid 80's.
Time to add one to my collection now.

 

It's much more easy now to find a decent one, than it actually was when I bought this one


Procopius, AE3 Heraclea mint
D N PROCOPIVS P F AVG, pearl diademed, draped and cuirassed bust left.
REPARATI-O FEL TEMP, Emperor standing facing, head left, holding labarum in right hand and leaning on shield. Chi-Rho in upper right field, dot in left field. Exergue illisible
2.17 gr 18 mm
Ref : Cohen # 9, LRBC # 1929

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