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Title: Id please Doc Post by: WeCan-Octavian on January 15, 2013, 12:58:27 PM Hi
I cant remember if this has been id before, the pic of the back is not very good, i think Geoff did tell me what it was but its gone!! Title: Re: Id please Doc Post by: probono on January 15, 2013, 01:47:27 PM It looks like a coin of Valens (Dn VALEN - S PF AVG)
There's no scale on it, so it could be an Ae4 or an Ae3 (with Salus Reipublicae reverse perhaps) - if there is a winged victory going left or GLORIA ROMANORUM id there is a person right with a standard Title: Re: Id please Doc Post by: DEADLOCK on January 15, 2013, 01:49:33 PM Is that a somerset roman
Title: Re: Id please Doc Post by: WeCan-Octavian on January 15, 2013, 02:05:37 PM Ya Al
Thanks PROBONO Has winged victory left and v shaped thing in right hand Title: Re: Id please Doc Post by: nobby on January 15, 2013, 02:20:53 PM is probono a doc ??? :)
Title: Re: Id please Doc Post by: WeCan-Octavian on January 15, 2013, 02:25:06 PM Title: Re: Id please Doc Post by: probono on January 15, 2013, 03:24:49 PM is probono a doc ??? :) No, I'm not yet :) Just an MA :( I've got some interest in roman coins though :) Title: Re: Id please Doc Post by: Chef Geoff on January 15, 2013, 03:29:53 PM Nick, any chance of a better photo? If that's from your hoard field and it's Valens then it's quite a late coin for that site ???
Title: Re: Id please Doc Post by: WeCan-Octavian on January 15, 2013, 03:48:02 PM Hi matey
It was indeed, the first one i found by itself in the morning, hope these pics are better Title: Re: Id please Doc Post by: Chef Geoff on January 15, 2013, 03:54:07 PM No the bust is still out of focus
Title: Re: Id please Doc Post by: probono on January 15, 2013, 04:04:42 PM I based the id on the fact there are only 5 letters between DN (Domini Nostri) and the 'S P(ius) F(elix) AVG(ustus)'
It's obviously a 4th century coin, so you just have to find an emperor whose name is 6 letters long which ends in 'S' - Valens is the shortest. Having seen the reverse it is the Salus Reipublicae type - guess the mint it looked like SMN(something) - Nicomedia I think. It's in the same range of dates I get from my site - the latest coins I have successfully id'd so far have been Gratian - up to around 375AD. Apparently the later coins are 'there' but they are usually so awful they are in the 'grots' boxes. Title: Re: Id please Doc Post by: WeCan-Octavian on January 15, 2013, 04:07:42 PM ???
Title: Re: Id please Doc Post by: Chef Geoff on January 15, 2013, 04:56:26 PM Thanks Roland, that is the first one past the 340's. Have you recorded it Nick or should I say Will you ?
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