Tudor period snake belt fitting

1422-27 AD Henry VI hammered silver Groat ( 4 pence) - 3.59g, 25.29mm

sent to Fitzmuseum for class ID

Huge, James 1st Scottish Merk sometimes known as the half thistle dollar and value of 13 shillings and 4 pence

( 160 pence) 6.56g, 31.40mm

House of Constantine mid 4thC Roman bronze 4.23g, 22.13

'centenionalis of Constans (337-350 A.D.). This one's reverse legend is FEL TEMP REPARATIO, but instead of the more common soldier spearing the unfortunate cavalryman, shows the emperor in the prow of a boat steered by Victory, and holding a phoenix on a globe and a labarum (legionary standard with a Chi-Rho Christogram on it) It appears, although the exergual mintmark is not particularly clear, to be from the mint at Lugdunum (Lyons). This type dates to about 348-349 A.D'.

Mid 4thC Roman bronze 3.64g, 21.64 mm

appears (and I can't be certain because the obverse legend is decidedly unclear, but from the spacing of the visible letters seems likely) to be Constantius II (337-361 A.D.) and is also a centenionalis, and also of the FEL TEMP REPARATIO series. This one shows the emperor either dragging or leading-forth a barbarian from a hut under a tree. It depends on who you read which interpretation - warlike or condescending - is cited for this type. The exergue is really obscure on this one, but I think I see an R - star - ?? which gives it a high liklihood to be mint of Rome. This type also dates to fairly early in the monetary reform of c. 348, so is about the same era, give or take a year, as the first, but could be a year or two later since Constans died in 350, but the series went on under Constantius' reign'

Georgian belt clasp

45 BC Addedomaros Celtic gold full stater found by Texas Gary

5.45g, 18.78 mm CCI 05.0749

James VI of Scotland 1601- 1604 hammered silver 1/4 Thistle Merk or half noble as it was sometimes known value 3 shillings and 4 pence ( 40 pence )

1.13g,18.79mm

Superb detailed tiny Medieval fastener with figure kneeling and praying

1.42g,26.7mm Lx 7.62mm W

45 BC Addedomaros Celtic gold coin 5.58g, 15.72mm CCI 05.0752

1351 Edward III Pre- treaty, Post treaty

Obv EDWARDVS REX ANGLI

hammered silver penny 17.20 mm

Edward 1st 1272 Class 1d

Obv EDWAR ANGL R DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/ TAS/ LON/ DON

Pellet on neck 1.30g,16.92mm

Fascinating find - Stone ball griped inside a hand made decorated circular mount 7.91g, 18.90mm

Early ball bearing ? Compass mount ?

 

'Titus as Caesar, and if it is consular year 4 as I believe, would date to 75 A.D.' ID 5.45g, 22.42mm'

'I'm afraid that all I can give you is generalities on this one. With no helpful bits of legend showing on the obverse, and the portrait too vague to say who is intended, about all I have to go on is your metrology and the reverse.
At 5.45gm and 22+mm, and with a clear S - C on the reverse there are many possibilities ruled out, here. SC pretty much went the way of the dinosaurs during the worst days of the mid 3rd century. At that time, the official fiat currency - the debased, basically copper antoninianus - drove all the "smaller" AE fractional denominations out of circulation and they ceased, for the most part, ever to be produced again.

Although the size and weight is believable for many sorts of later coins - antoniniani and AE2's - they wouldn't carry the SC. At 5.45gm, it's too light and at 22+mm, a little too small for an as, unless it's an imitative, but it doesn't have that look to it. I'm hard pressed to provide diagnostics for that, but it just doesn't have the "feeling" of an imitative.

So about all we're left with is a semis - unusual as that denomination is. Semisses were never produced in any great quantities, and not at all after the early Severans, so that gives us a date of not much later than 200 A.D. at the latest. I keep looking at that obverse while I write this, and hoping it will resolve into something or someone familiar that I could be more certain about, but after looking at the listings for my first thought - Hadrian - and finding nothing similar, I have to venture a guess at one of the Flavians - Vespasian, Titus, or Domitian. And this brings up a different problem - the semisses of the Flavians were smaller, and brass - and none of the above suspects minted any with standing personifications.

However, in the process of looking all this up, I did see something that might be a lead - Titus, while still Caesar under dad Vespasian, had a number of obverse legends that ended with his consular year, and about all that is clear on your coin's obverse legend is the "IIII" at the end. The thick-necked portrait works for a Flavian. One of the most common reverse types for asses of the Flavians was Aequitas, standing left holding scales and either scepter or cornucopia - and that's pretty much what I see on your coin's reverse.

So I am forced to deduce - although I would not be the least bit surprised were I eventually proven wrong - that this is an underweight as (why? it could be an imitative of superior style, or just a skimpy-flan official issue) of Titus as Caesar, and if it is consular year 4 as I believe, would date to 75 A.D.'

Great info again supplied from Mark Lehman at the URF

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