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<p>[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 3128192, member: 31533"]Feel free to comment, I am just learning about the URBS ROMAs. I weighed and measured the three ones that are Rome Commemoratives and are bronze follises. The one from Cyzicus (Coin 1) is one of two AE3s, and weighs almost twice as much as the other this size. It weighs 3.118 grams. Coin 7 is also an AE3 but it only weighs 1.783 grams. Coin 5 is a smaller AE4 and weighs 2.158 grams. I learned that these are likely not to have been minted while Constantine I was alive, but were later ones and all the busts are of a helmeted Roma (a female deity who personified the city of Rome) and the ones with the she-wolf and the twins sucking are the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus. The two stars above the she-wolf are representative of Castor and Pollux (and I learned a new word: Dioscuri, which simply is referring to these two twins together --- as does "Polydeuces"). I learned to measure the diameter on a ruler to figure out AE sizes, too. Wow!</p><p>The mints are the letters in exergue are the mintmarks, and the one from Cyzicus is from the asian area (Kapu Dagh, Turkey) as is the one marked Heraclea (Eregli, Turkey). Cyzicus has the SMK and Heraclea the SMH, and the last letter is maybe the office that did this. Offices at each mint varied in different times. I am not sure exactly what an 'office' is, but I am suspecting it might simply mean that each mint site had a certain number of minting facilities and these were called offices. Who knows??? I don't yet. The smallest one, an AE4, is evidently minted at Rome, as part of the mintmark has RO in it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have not figured out which ones these three are actually of. Might not be able to figure out the Rome mint one, as some place said that the AE4s were common as anything and it is pretty worn. The other two, one is already identified and it seems so far that is likely true, and the other is not identified but is maybe going to be somewhere near ones (similar to) id'd as RIC VII 90 or something. You can see I am so confident (LOL), I don't even know for sure. I'm just guessing, maybe.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, these are all Roman Imperial Coinage (and I am guessing that is what RIC in Ric numbers stands for).</p><p><br /></p><p>Even though these are all not different emperers on here, I learned a lot so far and expect to learn a lot more. I am glad I bought the three URBS ROMAs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 3128192, member: 31533"]Feel free to comment, I am just learning about the URBS ROMAs. I weighed and measured the three ones that are Rome Commemoratives and are bronze follises. The one from Cyzicus (Coin 1) is one of two AE3s, and weighs almost twice as much as the other this size. It weighs 3.118 grams. Coin 7 is also an AE3 but it only weighs 1.783 grams. Coin 5 is a smaller AE4 and weighs 2.158 grams. I learned that these are likely not to have been minted while Constantine I was alive, but were later ones and all the busts are of a helmeted Roma (a female deity who personified the city of Rome) and the ones with the she-wolf and the twins sucking are the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus. The two stars above the she-wolf are representative of Castor and Pollux (and I learned a new word: Dioscuri, which simply is referring to these two twins together --- as does "Polydeuces"). I learned to measure the diameter on a ruler to figure out AE sizes, too. Wow! The mints are the letters in exergue are the mintmarks, and the one from Cyzicus is from the asian area (Kapu Dagh, Turkey) as is the one marked Heraclea (Eregli, Turkey). Cyzicus has the SMK and Heraclea the SMH, and the last letter is maybe the office that did this. Offices at each mint varied in different times. I am not sure exactly what an 'office' is, but I am suspecting it might simply mean that each mint site had a certain number of minting facilities and these were called offices. Who knows??? I don't yet. The smallest one, an AE4, is evidently minted at Rome, as part of the mintmark has RO in it. I have not figured out which ones these three are actually of. Might not be able to figure out the Rome mint one, as some place said that the AE4s were common as anything and it is pretty worn. The other two, one is already identified and it seems so far that is likely true, and the other is not identified but is maybe going to be somewhere near ones (similar to) id'd as RIC VII 90 or something. You can see I am so confident (LOL), I don't even know for sure. I'm just guessing, maybe. Lastly, these are all Roman Imperial Coinage (and I am guessing that is what RIC in Ric numbers stands for). Even though these are all not different emperers on here, I learned a lot so far and expect to learn a lot more. I am glad I bought the three URBS ROMAs.[/QUOTE]
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