I picked up six more coins from the same person as before at my local flea market. It's mostly low grade stuff but pretty good when the price is only $5 a coin and unlikely to be fakes. Two of the coins are smaller and later folles of Constantine (ae 3), common reverse and I think one mint is Lugdunum but not sure about the other. The small Byzantine follis (Ae 2-3) I am not sure of. Because of its smaller size and image I am guessing maybe Justinian II. The small 10 numia I think is Maurice Tiberius. But now for the unknow. The small bronze, lower left, looks like a coin of the early Third Century, perhaps Septimius Severus, and the inscription seems to be in Greek so I think some Roman provincial but it is very small and a mystery to me. The last coin, lower right, is another mystery. The image may be that of Antoninus Pius and seems not to have any inscription. The reverse seems to be in Latin and the deity looks like Serapis. Near the back of his head I can make out what seems to be , COL PRIL (?). I am not aware of any Latin Colonies founded at that time, so I may be far off on this one. Any help on any of the coins appreciated. Thanks
Bottom right coin looks like Marcus Aurelius/Serapis from Samaria. Here are some similar coins from Sixbid's archive (my first time using their archive for such purposes and it was very helpful ) : SAMARIA, Caesarea Maritima. Marcus Aurelius, 161-180 AD. AE25 (10.37 gm). Laureate head / Bust of Serapis wearing modius. Kad.40. Rosen.33. VF, dark brown patina. Scarce SAMARIA, Caesarea Maritima. Marcus Aurelius, 161-180 AD. AE24 (14.09 gm). Laureate head / Bust of Serapis wearing modius. Kad.38. Rosen.32. VF, green patina with earthen highlights. ex. Hoffman collection. Caesarea Maritima, Samaria. Marcus Aurelius (161 - 180 AD). AE (24mm, 12.34 gm, 12h). Draped and cuirassed bust of Marcus Aurelius r., laureate; IMP CAES M AVR ANTONINVS AVG PF / Bust of Serapis r., with decorated kalathos; COL PRIMAI FL AVG CAESAREA (the first Flavian Augustan colony, Caesarea). Ros. 33. Kad. 40. Sofaer pl.24,38. Dark green patina. Good Very Fine ...and several more from the last several years. Looks like an interesting coin!
Yes, it's definitely a variety of this coin. The partial inscription that I can read is the same as the COL PRI... . good call. I had no idea such a coin existed, that is a Latin inscribed coin of Samaria and it is Marcus Aurelius. Seems to be a bit of a scarce coin. How about that little one, the one I think may be a Septimius provincial? Any luck with that one?
Yes, that's Septimius Severus and the reverse inscription is nicely legible: NIKOΠΟΛΙΤ(etc), so Nikopolis. The reverse figure is holding a "purse" and wearing a petasos, therefore it is Hermes. I didn't look for any examples but should be able to find some in the various archives.
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/6318/ https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/6318/24/ Exactly what I was thinking as well. Great new coins, Kevin!! Here are my two Samaria MA coins I got in a lot last year: Marcus Aurelius, Ruled 161-180 AD AE22, Samaria, Caesarea Maritima Obverse: IMP CΛES M ΛVR ΛNTONINVS ΛVG, laureate head right. Reverse: COL PRIMΛE AVG CΛESΛREΛE, draped bust of Serapis wearing ornate kalathos right. References: RPC IV 6318, BMC 83-91, Kadman 40 Size: 22.5mm, 7.3g Marcus Aurelius, Ruled 161-180 AD AE24, Samaria, Caesarea Maritima Obverse: IMP CΛES M ΛVR ΛNTONINVS ΛVG, laureate head right. Reverse: COL PRIMΛE AVG CΛESΛREΛE, draped bust of Serapis wearing ornate kalathos right. References: RPC IV 6318, BMC 83-91, Kadman 40 Size: 24mm, 11.4g I dig your new lil' hexagonal Byz coin too!
Most of them look MS-65 Red (ie. over cleaned). Time to send them to NGC and list them on eBay. The two on the top right should fetch $400 a piece. If you don't understand what I'm talking about, don't worry. I'm making a joke based on a recent eBay sale. Your coins are a decent find and I hope you enjoy them.
I will enjoy them. Here on the East Coast the flea market search is the equivalent of metal detector hunt along Hadrian's Wall. Just finding $5 ancients that are readable is fun. I keep finds like this in a separate collection from my other stuff.
I did on Wildwinds. It's listed as BMC 42. It says "scarce" there but there seem to be a number of them on the Net though this one seems above average. I find it hard to imagine how people managed not to lose these things when they went marketing.
More than half the coins at my local flea markets are fake and I have learned not to tell the seller that there's a good chance his coins may not be genuine but when finding coins like this there's little chance they have been faked and at these prices just the fun factor makes the purchase worthwhile.
I think I see CON on the right of the bust, maybe HERACLIUS CONSTANTINE? Idk For mint, I would venture a guess of Nikomedia, based on what I see as NI-- on the left in exergue.
You may be right on the mint mark. I see the NI but thought the third letter was an "S" but that might some other kind of mark.
I think I found it. Constans II, maybe with Heraclonas. IMPER CONST on obverse, M, Anno iii NEOS on reverse.
