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nam812nam812 Posts: 10,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Not sure if this belongs in this forum or not (please move this post if need be), but I wanted to get some thoughts on a strange coin I found in a penny roll this morning. Looks like something a person metal detecting might find. The first picture is the obverse and reverse from my digital camera, and the second picture is a high resolution scan of the obverse and reverse. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Nick

Digital Camera

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High Resolution Scan

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  • ormandhormandh Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭
    WOW! That is amazing. Is it the same diameter as a penny? It appears to be Roman, but my ancient coin knowledge is not so great. -Dan
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  • nam812nam812 Posts: 10,599 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>.........Is it the same diameter as a penny?.......... >>



    Yes it is.
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,673 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A late Roman Imperial AE2, then. Circa 4th Century. That's the best I can do based on the current images, and my wretched monitor. I can't make out any of the lettering from where I sit.

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  • nam812nam812 Posts: 10,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My images of the reverse are upside down in both pictures. Looks like this may be it.

    I believe this is it

    Just my luck. A 1,700 year old coin that's only worth about $25. image

    Constantine the Great
    Obverse: IMP CONSTANTINVS P F AVG
    Obverse type: Bust laureate and cuirassed right
    Reverse: SOLI INVICTO COMITI
    Reverse type: Sol radiate raising right hand, globe in left
    Date: 313-314 AD
    Mint: Ticinum
    Reverse Symbol: *:T T
    Size: 20 mm


    Edited to put in a better link.
  • ormandhormandh Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭
    I don't know. Even at $5 you made 5,000%. That is a great return on investment! Besides, what a cool surprise especially considering it could have been just a regular penny. -Dan
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,673 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>A 1,700 year old coin that's only worth about $25. >>



    Sorry to be a party-pooper, but in that condition, yours isn't gonna be worth that much, even.

    I think you're right- that does look like a SOLI INVICTO reverse, and the portrait does look like Constantine the Great (who's very common, by the way, but also very historically important, being the first "Christian" emperor and all that jazz.)

    Realistically, I'd put this one at about five bucks.

    Still a pretty damn nice find if you got it in a penny roll.

    In a similar vein, I picked up a low-grade AE2 of Arcadius off the ground last spring, while walking an 18th century colonial site. It was in a washout in a sand roadbed. It's also a $5-ish coin, value-wise. A bit later than yours, perhaps. Circa late 4th century AD.

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  • rec78rec78 Posts: 5,804 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Neat find--The oldest coin ever found in a penny roll.
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  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    What an amazing find! Really, I'm blown away.

    I found a safety pin in my utility drawer the other day, maybe I should start a thread about it. Putz.
  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,797 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>What an amazing find! Really, I'm blown away.

    I found a safety pin in my utility drawer the other day, maybe I should start a thread about it. Putz. >>



    You probably got lost and looking for the US coin forum. It's that a way --->

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  • nam812nam812 Posts: 10,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lee (CDsNuts) is a friend of mine (not just on the message boards) and just fooling around. image
  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    Lee (CDsNuts) is a friend of mine (not just on the message boards) and just fooling around.

    I could not disagree more with this statement.
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