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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2197459, member: 19463"]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. </p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=26576" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=26576" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=26576</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2197459, member: 19463"]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. [url]http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=26576[/url][/QUOTE]
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