WELL, I'VE FOUND YET ANOTHER ANCIENT COIN THAT I DIDN'T KNOW I HAD. THIS ONE IS REALLY TINY, ONLY ABOUT 10mm AT THE LONGEST. I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY HELP IN IDENTIFICATION SO I'LL AT LEAST KNOW WHAT I HAVE HERE. BY THE WAY, I'M NOT SURE OF THE ROTATION OF THE THE REVERSE. THANKS, MIKE.
Late roman Constantine-era bronze. Not sure which ruler, though. I don't do well in LRB's. Someone shall be along shortly. Until then, see if you can figure out what the letters to the left of the Ruler's head are; I think we can decipher the Numerals on the reverse.
Oh, I'm not very experienced in this stuff. I'll do my best to not use capital letters anymore. I' a late bloomer in the use of computers and all. Regards.
Starting at the lower left, the first two letters are DN for Dominus Noster or Our Lord. The next letter might be H which suggests Honorius. If it is TH we suspect Theodosius. Your photo could be more clear here. The reverse reads VOT / X / MVLT / XX in a wreath with the city mintmark below that. Yours is off center losing the VOT. The reverse was used by so many rulers that it would help if you can figure out the letters following DN. The mintmark looks like ANA for Antioch, first workshop. I could be imagining that but see if wiggling the coin under a good light allows you to confirm or deny those guesses. Below I link a Theodosius from Alexandria (ALEA) which could be your type as well. The coin is clear on both questions which yours is not. Perhaps you can ID from what I've given, perhaps not. These coins are often poor and ragged. Yours is bad but not the worst. Really clear ones are not easy to find. http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=26576
Here's hopefully a couple of better photos of it. i would have posted them earlier but I lost it for a while and only found it this morning. Mike.
Doug has it right. It is Type 26, from Antioch, on this page about late Roman Ae coins: http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/ Click the image for a page with more details, and then click on that page for many images. Unfortunately, Michael, your coin is missing much of the emperor's name, making it had to identify. I'm guessing the legend is DN THEO... for Theodosius.
