![]() Our basic title breakdown skills will allow us to add spaces separating out the titles from the name. IMPCONSTA-NTINVSAVG is divided to left and right sections around a left facing bust of the ruler. Knowing the ruler who issued our coin should help so we will read the obverse legend and see if it does. Failing to find the coin, the best course is to try another volume. This coin comes from the period covered by Volume VII but I fear I can not tell you a foolproof way of determining that fact without knowing something about the coin so, for now, we will suggest making a guess and looking for a coin in a volume. Each volume has its own little rules and tricks. RIC is divided into ten volumes written by individuals or teams that made no effort to match the format of the volumes that had come out previously. At ten volumes and over $1000 it is some investment in both time and money but there is a lot of information to be found after the new user gets used to the layout and learns a few tricks that will help find a coin. RIC is THE #1 reference for Roman Imperial coins. The coin has a diameter of 20mm and weighs 3.8g.īruun, Patrick, The Roman Imperial Coinage (RIC), Volume VII: This one shows a few worn spots where the darker copper shows through but remains a decent example to most standards. Some coins survive into our collections with some amount of silver remaining. Our first example is a very nice coin to illustrate the fact that many or most (but not all!) late Roman bronze coins were issued with a thin silver wash on the surface to remind folks that the alloy contained a minute amount of silver (often in the 1% to 4% range depending on the period). C., The Roman Imperial Coinage (RIC), Volume VIIIġ. To get full value from this page you will need to have RIC Volumes VII and VIII available to follow along with the process.īruun, Patrick, The Roman Imperial Coinage (RIC), Volume VII As we advance from one coin to the next, it is hoped that much of the material will be seen to be applicable with each new coin. We will try to explain things to cover the obvious questions however simple they may seem to some. Readers here who have any background with these coins will most likely say I am dwelling to much on questions that are obvious but the purpose of this page is not to assume the reader already knows more than I do (although that frequently may well be the case). I simply can not produce a simple web page that will enable the passive reader to identify every coin in hand but it is hoped that these few examples will smooth over a few of the questions that might come up when looking at their own various coins. While we are at it we will go through the process of identifying these coins using the commonly available major reference on ancient coins that each collector might (or should!) consider adding to the library. This page will take a look at a few examples of Late Roman Bronze Coins and use them to evaluate not only the coins but our own abilities to read, identify and understand what we see. Identifying Late Roman Coins Identifying Late Roman Coins Using RIC
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