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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 4016916, member: 44316&quot;]As you may know, I have a web site on all the types of late Roman AE from Valentinian to Valentinian III and Theodosius II (364-450).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Some people use it and correspond with me. One, our new member [USER=73885]@LukeGob[/USER], wrote me and said he had recently bought an example of a type I did not have illustrated (Type 83). In a remarkable burst of kindness, he offered and sold it to me at his (low) cost and wrote &quot;I Figure it should be with someone like you who can share it with the community better&quot; and &quot;I am very happy this coin is where it belongs.&quot;&nbsp; Thank you very much [USER=73885]@LukeGob[/USER]!</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a small AE4: 11 mm. 1.57 grams.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1056290[/ATTACH] </p><p>Valentinian III, struck c. 440-455.</p><p>Bust right. Crude DN VA to the left [and the rest is illegible]</p><p>campgate (&quot;gateway&quot;) with RO-MA around. </p><p>RIC X 2164, Rome &quot;R4&quot;. Their example is so off-center to 6:00 that the bottom of the gate is at the rim and if there is anything below the gate, it is off the flan, so they didn&#039;t know what the mintmark was. On this example there are two letters there, but I will not bias your observation by telling you what I think they are. By the way, the photo is as clear as the coin in hand, so I solicit your decipherment. What do you think they are? </p><p><br /></p><p>The 1976 publication <i>Late Roman Bronze Coinage</i> written by Carson, Hill and Kent assembled an outline of all the late Roman AE in preparation for writing RIC X. It did not have this type. I infer it was unknown in 1976. But it is in RIC X with a sharper (but off-center) example illustrated. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I agree late Roman AE from the 5th century can be in low grade and is unlikely to impress your friends. But, for a person (me) who has been studying late Roman types for a very long time, getting a new type is pretty special. </p><p><br /></p><p>What letters do you see in exergue?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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