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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 678318, member: 19463&quot;]Bart;</p><p>Of course you can share my site - that is why it is there.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ardatirion;</p><p>Nice coin and a good example of a period where ancients are in no way beautiful in the artistic sense of the word.&nbsp; Yours is a bit more even and smooth than most but I&#039;m sorry the mintmark was lost.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>All;</p><p>The coins under question here were struck with a hammer and every one was hit a little different squishing out every which way.&nbsp; The Arcadius does have a little &#039;flower&#039; in it.&nbsp; Some collectors would consider that a bonus while I have known guys who required all their coins be perfectly round and avoided edge irregularities like the plague.&nbsp; It takes all kinds.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;ll offer below another late Roman but this one is from the emperor Leo I.&nbsp; Again the mintmark is off the flan so we have to work a little harder to assign the coin to a mint.&nbsp; In this case it is very little harder since the visible obverse legend is D N LEO but the L is shown as a Greek Lambda rather than a Latin L.&nbsp; That is a known variety from Constantinople mint so the coin once showed CON at the bottom of the reverse.&nbsp; The dirt filled pit under his chin is a natural hole that goes through to the reverse at the right of the monogram.&nbsp; Interesting or an ugly flaw?&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/leolam.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Condition freaks rarely collect 5th century bronzes.&nbsp; Being identifiable to ruler places a coin in the top half of the condition census.&nbsp; Being identifiable to mint and ruler probably hits the top quarter.&nbsp; Showing the entire obverse legend is top 2% at best.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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