What kind of Ancient Coin is this

ok this is my second post of this because the first one didn't work copy paste these links to see it
http://i.imgur.com/dl0U0.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/VsQMr.jpg

If you know please tell me I would really like to know

 

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what does that mean

 

That means no text. I accidentally posted a response to this thread instead of one of your other ones, but I couldn't completely delete the post.

Anyway, the coin appears to be one of Claudius Gothicus (though I can't confirm that), but I'll have to look later to see if I can get you a more specific identification.

 

Looks like an antoninous of Claudius Gothicus. The radiate crown signifies the denomination as a "double denarius" or antoninous.

 

I think your right

 

I'm not so sure:
http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=210242

The portrait could be either and the reverse pose is like MARTI PAC which is a Quintillus type.

 

Claudius Gothicus? Hm... I don't think so. I see a long hair on the head of that man, but Claudius had a very short hair.
Look at his portrait.

 

Good point.

 

then what kind do you think it is?

 

Like Doug said, the reverse is a Quintillus type, so it's probably an antoninianus of the emperor Quintillus. He looks a lot like Claudius Gothicus, and the former's coins are more common, so I had assumed that you had the former before I really researched the back of the coin. As you can see, that was a mistake.

 

Good catch Siberian. I was going from the OP pic next to his name, so didn't have much of a view.

Thanks!

 

well on the certificate of authenticity it says it was from constantine the great

 

what was a mistake

 

My identification of the coin as one of Claudius Gothicus, though I was close (Quintilian ruled just afterwords and looks very much like Claudius Gothicus).

Oh, and you might want to use "reply with quote" if you're going to reply to posts one by one. That makes it easier to see who you're responding to.

And as for the certificate of authenticity, it was either written by someone who doesn't know ancient coins or they had a hoard of mostly Constantinian coins and just gave out the same certificate for each coin without examining them to make sure there weren't any other emperors in there. The portrait doesn't look like Constantine at all, and this denomination ceased to be produced decades before Constantine came into power.

 

Well that is not even close. The good news is that its a better coin than most Contantine's would be. The major reason right off the bat is the spiked crown. Those are indicative of being an antoninuous, which was not made by Constantine.

I think you bought from one of those dealers who know little about ancients and "certify" their coins generically. Your certificate is as good as it is accurate, which means none.

 

Well do you think It is real because I paid 20 bucks for it.

 

Do you think it is real

 

It looks plenty authentic to me.

 

well thats good because the store I bought it from is very popular my brother bought a coin discovered by Aurther C Clark and my coin came with certificate of authenticity