ACEhelp : Messages : 948-980 of 2102

Messages: Simplify \| Expand (Group by Topic)		Author	Sort by Date

948	Hi, Could you please help me identify my coin? it is 17 millimeters in diameter. it shows Roma facing left. the coin shows a bust. the bust is draped. the head...	benfranklinacademy benfranklina...	Dec 14, 2004 2:27 pm
949	Hi Aaron, Unfortunately, your coin isn't rare - both the VRBS ROMA and CONSTANTINOPOLIS city-commemoratives can be found with the GLORIA EXERCITVS reverses,...	Mark Lehman lehmanstermi...	Dec 14, 2004 2:45 pm
950	Hi Could you please help me identify my coin? It is 17 mm in diameter. The emperor faces right. The coin shows a bust. The bust is draped. The head is...	benfranklinacademy benfranklina...	Dec 16, 2004 4:18 pm
951	Hi Lizzie, Your coin sounds like it is a very late follis. The follis started out the size of a US half dollar, but fairly quickly shrunk in size until the...	Mark Lehman lehmanstermi...	Dec 16, 2004 5:14 pm
952	Lizzie, Very nice job with your description! Just to add to Mark's reply, perhaps it's like this one: ...	dave.surber@... wildwinds_com	Dec 16, 2004 6:15 pm
953	Hi! Could you please help me identify my coin? It is 15 mm in diameter. The emperor faces right. We think the bust is cuirassed, but it's hard to tell. The...	benfranklinacademy benfranklina...	Dec 16, 2004 6:48 pm
954	Steven, That's an excellent description. And you've identified your coin quite well. (also, it's a much scarcer type than most of the Gloria Ex's). It's most...	Mark Lehman lehmanstermi...	Dec 16, 2004 7:02 pm
955	Yes Steven, a very nice find. I am sure you are reading up on Delmatius and his relationships with the family of Constantine. I am not sure which mints struck...	Tom Buggey tjbuggey	Dec 16, 2004 7:22 pm
956	Steve, Of course Tom is right - my mind was elsewhere or I would have thought of CON immediately - and it's a very likely mint for Delmatius, too. The...	Mark Lehman lehmanstermi...	Dec 16, 2004 7:40 pm
957	Greetings, all -- Many thanks for the great responses to Lizzie, Stephen, and Aaron. I have posted photos of all three coins, with my usual apologies for ...	benfranklinacademy benfranklina...	Dec 16, 2004 11:20 pm
958	It's fine with me. I wasn't sure if someone would want them or not either. ;) Pax, William Peters ACE Director ... From: benfranklinacademy...	William Peters aeratvs	Dec 16, 2004 11:34 pm
959	I would suggest deleting any that are normal coins but keep any that you considered exceptional in some respect. If a student found a great rarity or did such...	Doug Smith dougsmit.geo	Dec 17, 2004 3:23 am
960	Hello, I am a Latin student at Lexington Catholic High School. As a project, I have been researching a coin from the reign of Gordian III. A clear picture of...	lexingtoncatholic2002 lexingtoncat...	Jan 4, 2005 3:39 am
961	If 'best guess' will do I would suggest that ENT(E)IX... is the root word for fortified so this might refer to the city walls. BN strikes me as abbreviation...	Doug Smith dougsmit.geo	Jan 4, 2005 4:46 am
962	Doug is right on both counts. Gordian III "ordered the construction of city walls" there, so it was hot news. http://www.cappadociaonline.com/roman.html I...	G. Thomas Schroer numus_com	Jan 4, 2005 5:59 am
963	Thanks to Tom for the confirmation. I might add that you will find more on the subject searching the Greek spelling Neokouros that the one I used. It is...	Doug Smith dougsmit.geo	Jan 4, 2005 12:16 pm
964	Thank you all for your help with my Gordian III coin. I have learned alot, and never would have been able to do so without your inciteful advoce. I is truly...	lexingtoncatholic2002 lexingtoncat...	Jan 9, 2005 1:45 am
966	Hi Could you please identify my coin? It is 16 millimeters in diameter. It weighs 1 to 1.5 grams. OBVERSE: The emperor faces the right.The coin shows a bust....	benfranklinacademy benfranklina...	Jan 13, 2005 4:17 pm
967	Are you sure of the Obv legend? please double check and see if it breaks like this DNCONSTAN TIVSPFAVG ( I am showing Const II in LRBC for FEL TEMP issues as...	Tony Jaworski mnpolock	Jan 13, 2005 4:26 pm
970	Here is one that my Roman coin books will not help me with. It was in the lastest ACE lot and has us stumped in class. It is a cupped coin which, I believe,...	John Paul Bradford massinissa002	Jan 20, 2005 2:35 am
971	John Paul, If you go to Vcoins http://www.vcoins.com/search/search.aspx or the Wildwinds search engine http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/tsearch.html and do a...	tjbuggey	Jan 20, 2005 2:51 am
972	Hi! Could you please help me with my coin? It is 21 mm in diameter. The emperor faces right. The coin shows a cuirassed bust, and we think it's probably also...	benfranklinacademy benfranklina...	Jan 25, 2005 7:26 pm
973	Please look again at the coin an see if the reverse legend might be IOV ET HERCV CONSER AVGG which is a listed type of 293 AD from Antioch (RIC Vol. V page 256...	Doug Smith dougsmit.geo	Jan 25, 2005 7:58 pm
974	... be IOV ET HERCV CONSER AVGG which is a listed type of 293 AD from Antioch Dear Mr. Smith Thank you so much for your reply. Your reply definitely helped...	benfranklinacademy benfranklina...	Jan 27, 2005 3:17 pm
975	Hi, Could you please help me find a good website or search engine that would help me identify my coin. It has two heads on the obverse, facing each other. I...	newmangreenie	Feb 4, 2005 4:53 pm
976	Look for Marcianopolis Sincerely, Tom Schroer Numus ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...	G. Thomas Schroer numus_com	Feb 4, 2005 4:57 pm
977	HI Peter, Tom is correct in saying the Marcianopolis is a good place to start - a lot of the Provincial coins with facing or "opposed" busts are from there....	Mark Lehman lehmanstermi...	Feb 4, 2005 5:17 pm
978	http://dougsmith.ancients.info/eric.html I have posted a 'first look' review of the new book Encyclopedia of Roman Imperial Coins by Rasiel Suarez. The review...	Doug Smith dougsmit.geo	Feb 6, 2005 12:26 pm
979	... From: servicemail@... <servicemail@...> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 05:46:40 -0800 (PST) Subject: Coin Id Help To: coin.id.help@... ...	coin_id_help	Feb 10, 2005 4:19 pm
980	Test...	coin_id_help	Feb 10, 2005 4:19 pm

Yahoo! Groups Tips

Did you know...

Messages

Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail
	Sign In New User? Sign Up
		Groups Home - Help

Yahoo! Groups Tips

Did you know...

Best of Y! Groups

Messages