Late Roman Bronze Coins
Coin talk => Late Roman Bronze coins => Topic started by: livingwater on February 20, 2017, 04:58:40 PM
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I just won this on ebay Savoca for $47, Constantine I, Siscia RIC VII 54 with horseman on shield. Victor, I looked at the ones you have for sale on Vcoins. Yours with horseman left is cool. This one is rather worn and rough. It has a helmet design I don't recall seeing before. There are numerous designs on the helmets, stars, dots, crescents, chi-rho, etc. This one appears to have a rosette or wreath in the middle, inside may be a star or X? At first glance I wondered if it was a chi-rho with retrograde P, just wishful thinking. Below this are two dots with vertical line between. I zoomed in on the helmet but it goes out of focus. When it arrives I'll take a closer look. 20mm 3.14g
The chi-rho has a circle around it on the unique AR medallion of Constantine I. Do you know which museum has this coin?
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Hello Mark. I was the underbidder on this coin. The design is unusual but I have had a similar example which I have posted below. They are not exactly the same, but close.
I have a couple of pages on Siscian VLPP's --
http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/sis/
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Sorry I didn't know I was bidding against you. I mostly collect Roman Provincials, so we likely haven't been bidding on the same coins very often.
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It's not a problem at all...it goes with the territory. I only mentioned it because I thought it interesting that at least two people noticed the unusual helmet. I am glad that you got it though, as I would have eventually put it up for sale.