I have bought this coin from one of my local antiques shop (along with other items that I’ll show in the additions tread) and I’m not an expert on ancient coins so can you help me please.
Specifications;
Diameter is around 17mm (my calliper decided to fail so measurements from a ruler will do at this moment)
Weight is 2 Grams
Coin alignment
Bronze or Copper
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I have bought this coin from one of my local antiques shop (along with other items that I’ll show in the additions tread) and I’m not an expert on ancient coins so can you help me please.
Specifications;
Diameter is around 17mm (my calliper decided to fail so measurements from a ruler will do at this moment)
Weight is 2 Grams
Coin alignment
Bronze or Copper
going by what ive learnt of late its likely a follis belonging to constantinus II
mint abreviation is SIS which stands for Siscia
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N#175728 i think its this peice tough i cannot speak for its authenticity
Not sure of what you want help with and I am not an expert either but this looks like a cast replica to me.
I need help with getting the proper identification because even with the information I added I still had 15 results with the similar designs.
Lets see what other users say about its authenticity because I agree the condition is something to debate but I’ll add some more photos in a different environment because the lines that surround the busy aren’t visible to the naked eye and on the reverse there is some minor verdigris.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
I have bought this coin from one of my local antiques shop (along with other items that I’ll show in the additions tread) and I’m not an expert on ancient coins so can you help me please.
Specifications;
Diameter is around 17mm (my calliper decided to fail so measurements from a ruler will do at this moment)
Weight is 2 Grams
Coin alignment
Bronze or Copper
going by what ive learnt of late its likely a follis belonging to constantinus II
mint abreviation is SIS which stands for Siscia
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N#175728 i think its this peice tough i cannot speak for its authenticity
I could be but the coin in the link is 0.8 grams lighter than the one I have.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
It simply does not look right from the start my friend. An artificial modern appearance to it and some of the finer details look too crisp and clean.. Really, a 2000 year old copper based coin with absolutely no patina, soil, wear, etc? Just compare it to similar genuine coins of the era.
I have bought this coin from one of my local antiques shop (along with other items that I’ll show in the additions tread) and I’m not an expert on ancient coins so can you help me please.
Specifications;
Diameter is around 17mm (my calliper decided to fail so measurements from a ruler will do at this moment)
Weight is 2 Grams
Coin alignment
Bronze or Copper
going by what ive learnt of late its likely a follis belonging to constantinus II
mint abreviation is SIS which stands for Siscia
edit
N#175728 i think its this peice tough i cannot speak for its authenticity
I could be but the coin in the link is 0.8 grams lighter than the one I have.
These are hammered coins weight discrepencies where very much a thing
It simply does not look right from the start my friend. An artificial modern appearance to it and some of the finer details look too crisp and clean.. Really, a 2000 year old copper based coin with absolutely no patina, soil, wear, etc? Just compare it to similar genuine coins of the era.
I have seen similar on MA shops but they start £40+ while mine I got for £16 because I also bought a 1746 Lima halfcrown for £140 instead for £155 retail.
I will read in depth the information I have gathered from this site to see if mine is a fake.
Well I’ll wait to see what other people say. Because when I was examining it I just though it was cleaned in a strange manner and when I removed it from the flip it has a faint smell of copper/bronze with a salty, earthy undertone. I bought this coin in Stamford U.K. which is around 20 miles from where I live and the land especially around where I live was marshland until it was drained in the 1700s and the area is known for Roman coin hoards, heck when I was driving to Stamford about a mile up the road from my house behind some big houses which were built two years ago had at least 20 people with metal detectors which is a fairly common sight around my area.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
The obverse inscription is FL CONSTANTIVS AVG. That is Constantius II. I can't find any ancient coin with that inscription. There is DN FL CONSTANTIVS AVG and FL IVL CONSTANTIVS AVG and FL CONSTANTIVS NOB, but I cannot find the specific inscription shown here. I wonder if that was specifically done so a modern replica would not be confused with an ancient coin.
(Not all fakes are meant to scam people. Some are mass produced for museum gift shops and so forth.)
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Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
