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Message:: [QUOTE="GregH, post: 8281097, member: 75936"]I think the photo is too blurry to say something definitive BUT i am 99% sure this can't be RA. I am particularly interested in seeing the legend more clearly - Roman letters on 5th century AE4s are thick and distinctive, and usually there's only room on such a small flan for a couple of letters. You'd be lucky to fit "DN" on the flan, let alone "DN ROMVLVS". It can be like looking for shapes in clouds, where you see what you want to see. I have been fooled before too. This is why I have doubts about AE4s of other late Roman emperors - Majorian, Avitus, Anthemius, Nepos. There is never enough legend to identify the ruler by the obverse alone. Sometimes the reverse monogram provides the ID. But these coins are so crude, they are easily faked - no artistic skills necessary. "eBay" and "uncleaned" do not give me confidence. Your chances of finding a RA in a batch of a several hundred thousand uncleaned bronze coins are virtually zero, given the vast numbers of common bronze coins that were produced. Your chances of finding a fake bronze coin, or one that looks like it *could* be RA but isn't, are much better. The finding of a bronze RA in an uncleaned lot would be a significant numismatic event, and should be taken to an expert like David Sear for verification.[/QUOTE]