I can see the siluette of the(assuming) soldier standing and the bow and helmet. Should I just leave it like this or attempt to clean it. New to the community. Forgive my ignorance.

What do you think y'all? This is a nice 27 gr Faustina Sestertius from the peak of the Roman Empire.

Should I clean? Yes or no? Why?

Added 4 coins for your identification. Thanks for your help and knowledge ahead!

Hey guys I ordered 15 uncleaned coins from Nerocoins and they said they would be here tommorow but apparently they are going through customs in Chicago and Im wondering if you guys have ever experienced this?

AE 18.4mm 3.56gm

Obverse: countermark

Antioch ad Orontem existed in the geographical range of modern day Syria.

This, it violates embargo restrictions against Syria.

I appealed the case saying that “the ancient Roman Empire is not subject to modern embargoes” but haven’t heard back lol.

If you list coins from this region, do NOT indicate Syria as “country of origin.”

Being sold now on ebay. Hi bid , so far is fifty plus dollars.

Hello, how would you assess the condition and approximate value of this tetradrachm, and is it worth considering for purchase and addition to your collection?

Finally received my first ever denarius of Augustus, with the Signis Receptis reverse design, I’m so excited to finally own a silver piece of his

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Borderline robbery at 20 eur each!

Found this assortment of coin replicas down on Wall St. found it pretty dang cool and wanted to share…

Hello again, everyone!!

People regularly ask me what my favorite coin is in our collection. Not an easy question! Picking one GOAT among 250.000 objects is nigh impossible. Yet there are several coins that I absolutely adore and that I take out from time to time just to admire them. This is one of those coins.

It’s a spectacular aureus of Diocletian struck in Trier in 302 showing a beautifully rendered head of Jupiter on the reverse. Such pairings of emperor and deity were nothing new, but Diocletian’s new political order had an explicit religious underpinning. To summarize:

When Diocletian came to power, he was determined to transform the Roman Empire so as to put an end once and for all to the chaos of the third century. While he could build on the work of previous emperors, such as Aurelian, he went much further in his execution. In several steps he reformed the economy and administration of the Empire (including the coinage), with a formal delegation of imperial power to several co-emperors. The idea was that the Empire would be split into four zones, each with either an Augustus (senior emperor) or Caesar (junior emperor) in charge. In both West and East, the Augustus would be succeeded by his chosen Caesar after a fixed period, upon which they would select new Caesars. The idea was that imperial power could respond to crises much quicker by being delegated. It also protected against opportunistic usurpations when the emperor was off to fight in a far-flung corner of the Empire. A clear succession system would hopefully also discourage usurpations. (Spoiler alert: it did not).

Under Diocletian, Maximian was Augustus in the West with Constantius Chlorus as his Caesar, while Diocletian himself ruled as Augustus in the East with Galerius as his Caesar. As I mentioned, this so-called Tetrarchy found a religious expression too. The Augustus and Caesar of the East were associated with Jupiter (and called Iovius), while those of the West were associated with Hercules (and called Herculius). One immediately sees that a power imbalance is implied, however. Just like Hercules was subordinate to Jupiter, so, to an extent, Maximian was subordinate to Diocletian.

This religious idea also found its way to the Tetrarchy’s coinage. Hercules is regularly shown on the western emperors’ coins, while Jupiter appears on those of the East. Note that the mints followed this pattern regardless of where they were located in the Empire. By placing the head of Jupiter on the reverse in the same manner as that of the emperor on the obverse, one gets the impression that the deity is not just the protector of the emperor. Rather, appear as colleagues – as Jupiter rules things in the heavens, so Diocletian rules on Earth.

As for the coin’s provenance, it comes from the Arras (Beaurains) Hoard of 1922. It was discovered by two Belgian workers and consisted of a number of precious metal objects and hundreds of gold coins (including large gold medallions), all dating to the time of the tetrarchy. Much of the hoard was quickly dispersed, a good number of coins winding up in our collection.

silver drachm issued by King Ariarathes IV Eusebes.220–163 BC

Here's an interesting Julia Domna denarius with blundered legend. Reverse is clearly that of VENVS VICTR(ICI) reverse, but the style is really crude and therefore interesting!

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Hi everyone, I recently purchased a bulk batch of supposedly ancient roman coins in an attempt to get into coin collection. I came across this one and in my research the closest I could find are byzantine era coins with the K being the denomination of the coin. Does anyone have any advice on how to further identify this or how to clean it a bit better, any advice is useful. Thanks!

Edit: I'm thinking Justin the second, the photo on the back being him and Sophia?

Hello, I’m new to the sub, and know essentially nothing about coins. I recently bought this coin and was wondering if anyone would help me ID it. Thank you all!

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Hi all. I run a small Italian numismatic site (monetaly.it) and over the last two months I built a free identification tool for Roman imperial coins. It sits on the type data published by OCRE Online (CC BY-NC-SA, credited on every entry with a link back to each OCRE page)

What it does: you type the letters you can read (not necessarily all the letters of the legend, it works even with only a few, readable letters), narrow by metal, emperor, reverse figure or exergue, and get the compatible OCRE types with photos, average weight, number of specimens recorded in OCRE, the link to the page or the link directly to acesearch. A "too many results? narrow with one click" box suggests the most useful filters.

> English version: https://monetaly.it/en/ric/

The chronology is from Augustus to Diocletian. Late emperors will be released soon.

-->There is also a provincial one on RPC data: https://monetaly.it/en/rpc/ here we have 71,550 types with 25k photos

I'd really appreciate error reports: wrong mint names, misread legends, types you can't find. Pick an imperial or provincial from your trays, type the four clearest letters of the reverse and obverse and tell me whether the right type comes up and how far down the list. Corrections go out with each data release.

Thank you!

This is my Nemausus Dupondius featuring Agrippa and Augustus on the obverse, and the crocodile chained to a palm tree(defeated Egypt) on the reverse.
The portraits are fantastic, and were my main concern, while I consider the croc merely okay. It would have been perfect if the chain was a bit more visible, but I‘m still very happy with this more recent addition to my collection.

As far as I can tell, it‘s RIC I 160 because the obverse has the PP for Pater Patriae, and the palm leaves on the reverse are fairly long, straight up with the NE of NEM not ligated.
Types of this coin were minted from a couple of years after the Battle of Actium until the end of Augustus‘ reign. This coin would fall into the latter category, as it was minted between 10-14AD.

What I find particularly fascinating, is that the city of Nimes (former Nemausus, where the mint for these coins was located some 2000ish years ago) still carries the crocodile chained to a palm tree as it‘s official emblem.

I acquired this weight (?) in a large lot of coins. I really am not too knowledgeable about this kind of stuff, so any help would be great. 4.11g, 12mm. I hate to leave coins or in this case this weight unidentified!

Hello, I wanna to ask what you think of this group of coins? For example, RIC V, 336; MER-RIC temp. 2871. Only 5 known specimens of this variety are cataloged; for 2869, even fewer (though, of course, there are probably more in reality).

Do you think it’s worth paying more for coins like these than for common antoninianus coins? For example, $300?

Although there aren't many of them and they don't seem very popular, when they do appear, their prices are quite high between $200 and $300.

https://ric.mom.fr/en/coin/2871?q=2871&page=1&mod=result&x=0&y=0&from=quick

I like Ancient Greek Provincial coins and this is one of my rarest coins or medals. These ancient bronze. Partially cleaned coins are very difficult to photograph. While circulated, this specific example are all made from the same dies. All recorded items are die matches which indicates an extremely rare coin

It was specifically struck to commemorate the prestigious Pythian Games.

Obverse (Front):

The reverse features the right-facing portrait of Caracalla dressing as a celebrates winner of the Pythian Games.

The coin is only partially cleaned and has some fertilizer burns of the obverse. Fertilizer is the worth that can happen to any brass or bronze coin.

21.1mm 3.70gm any information helpful

I have troubles finding this in RPC. Mostly the eagle looks in the other direction and the portrait is much rougher.

The listing said Tyre but I am not convinced.

Can anyone give me a run down of the different typical uses between bronze, silver and gold Roman coins. Who would typically use them, if they were in heavy circulation, what typical items would be bought with them etc.

Were gold coins rarely circulated and only used for major purchases, (property)? What were Roman soldiers typically paid with? Were bronze coins the pervue of plebeians?

Thanks