John Conduitt ✭✭✭✭

Yes you would have a job finding an uncleaned ancient. Every one of them came out of the ground. Hoard coins start out in large clumps covered in Verdigris and other deposits. This coin has been clea… (View Post)

I think we can be slightly more precise. I don't think Constantine II had one of these reverses as he was dead by 340 and these were struck in AD347-348 for Constans and Constantius II. The only mint… (View Post)

...and I think the obverse legend is DN CONSTA-NS PF AVG. So it's Constans, pearl diademed, from Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople, Herculea or Nicomedia. Although that still only narrows it down t… (View Post)

It looks like Constantine II, Constans or Constantius II, with a VOT XX MULT XXX reverse. Possibly an eastern mint. (View Post)

I'm getting to the point in my collection where I have most of the cheaper, easy to find coins. So it will be fewer coins, perhaps 2 or 3 a month, whether that's because of rarity or because I'm hold… (View Post)