Sept 2007 finds page 2

this is Constantine I "The Great", dating to the period 325-27 A.D. Precise dating will depend on a bit of cleaning of the exergual mintmark.

'The obverse is pretty straightforward: CONSTAN - TINVS AVG. Laureate head right.
The reverse type is straightforward too (you had the image upside-down, but you meant to do that, right?)
It's: PROVIDENTIAE AVGG. ("By virture of the Forethought of the Augustii") Campgate (some debate whether this was supposed to be a camp, a city gate, or just what, but they're conventionally called "campgates") of 6 tiers, no door, 2 "turrets" ( there's some debate about what those were, too - but that's a discussion for another day) and 1 star above - your basic "Constantinian campgate" AE3 - very common, but there are many who specialize in these due to all the possible sub-varieties - different numbers of tiers of masonry, door open, door closed, gate on foundation or step(s), decorations in top row of "bricks", number of turrets and stars, etc, etc, ad infinitum, for all the Imperial mints - and you can see how it could be a lifetime's specialty - so, be that as it may, the exact dating of this one will have to wait for a little cleaning of the exergual area on the reverse.

This is from the mint at Trier, an exceptionally active and prolific mint for northern Gaul and Britain at this time. The mintmark appears to be: STR - "SECVNDA TRIERENSIS" that's the 2nd officina or workshop of the mint - so far, so good, but for exact dating I'd need to be able to tell what the little sequence mark is that follows it. I hope you are able to read this in HTML because I am going to insert a few characters here which won't make any sense if viewed in straight ASCI - $#! - a shallow "U" shape with either nothing within it, a small dot, or a larger dot or small asterisk-like star.
If no dot or star in the $, the coin is RIC VII, Trier 461, 325 A.D. "R5" (extremely rare) from officina S But the frequency ratings in RIC VII often require a "reality check" - a certain snobbish, elitist attitude among the museum curators, collectors and scholars of 50+ years ago (when these volumes of RIC were being written) resulted in the keepers of the collections surveyed to compile these frequency ratings typically feeling such coins were "beneath their notice" and, in many cases, they allowed a few token, representative pieces to stand for the entire series. Add to this the astonishing amount of new material coming on the market in recent years with the advent of inexpensive metal detector technology, and a reality check is often in order when one sees an "R5" rating on something like this and an "R1", "S", or even a "C" rating on early gold aureii or solidi.

With a dot - # - it would be RIC 475, 326 A.D., and "C3" (very common)

If it's - ! - with the larger dot or asterisk-star within, it's not listed, but should be presumed to exist, and would be a slightly later series for 326/7, just before the advent of the GLORIA EXERCITVS 2 soldiers flanking 2 standards type.'

Mark

1669 Manningtree - Carter Henry, surgeon (CHYRVRGEON) 'His halfpenny' hammered copper trade token

Volume II - 1319a Barber/Surgeon

Stunning, Figure on horseback type. These are Low countries or German made coin weights for the low countries Rijder, rijdergulden

15.1 mm, 3.32g

1614-25 James 1st hammered copper farthing Type 3c Mintmark key

Genral type Obv. IACO D G MAG BR (IT)

Rev. FRA ET HIB REX

5th Dragoon guards button

WWII type 1935-1952

POUGEKEEPSIE POLICE ?

button

Another nice 4thC Roman find 1.71g,14.57mm sent off for ID

This one doesn't really provide enough clear obverse legend to be certain who it is - the "suspects" in approximate order of liklihood would be:

Constantine I
Constantine II, as Caesar
Constantius II, as Caesar
Constans, as Caesar.

Constantines I & II are head and shoulders more likely than the other two.

The only really clear letter is the "V" at 1:00 or so - this could be as in:
ConstantinVs Max Avg
Constantinus iVn Nob C
Fl Cl ConstantiVs Nob C
but very unlikely to be:
Constans Nob Caes or Constantis Nob C

This is a GLORIA EXERCITVS reverse, the earlier type with two standards between the two soldiers, although I suspect it's either a contemporary copy (a good possibility) or from the very end of the 2-standard era for these on the basis of its small module - for this era, 18mm or so is more appropriate. In general the 2-standard Gloria Ex's date to the period 330-335 A.D. Some mints switched over to the single-standard type as early as late 333.

There isn't enough clear exergue showing to comment on which of the 13 Imperial mints might have produced it - if, in fact, was produced at an official mint.

Mark

UNITED KINGDOM
The London Scottish
In use 1860 - 1901
Maker - Unknown

1586 Hans Krauwincel II Rose orb Jeton

Roman bronze Id'd 21.17mm, 2.58g it's an antoninianus of Tacitus 275-6 AD

Eventually, I was able to determine that what we have here is an AE antoninianus or "ant" of Tacitus, 275-6 A.D. This short-lived, elderly (75 yr-old) emperor succeeded Aurelian and very quickly came to the end of his own days after joining his army on campaign - the rigors of life in the field quickly proved his health to be more delicate than he thought.

The obverse shows Tacitus' radiate cuirassed bust right - the legend is too unclear for me to try to quote it, and there are many possibilities, give or take a letter here and there - suffice it to say, it begins with IMP, contains the word: TACITVS, and ends with AVG - but the devil, as they say, is in the details.
The reverse - which took a while to make sense of - is probably PAX AVG (it could be PAX AETERNA or PAX AUGUSTI - but these are much less likely from the letter-spacing) Pax is standing left, holding an olive-branch and scepter (although, given how vague the reverse is, if RIC gave "seated" as a possibility I'd say that was a potential interpretation, and if you said you saw a cornucopia in there too, I guess I wouldn't argue - but RIC only says "standing" and "scepter", under all the Pax varieties.)

The obverse legend is too indistinct for me to be to be certain of the details, and the presence or absence of a single letter here and there would be all the difference there is between the possibilities, but this could be either Cf. RIC V, i Mint in Gaul, 33-44 or Mint of Ticinum, Cf. 146-149, or Mint of Siscia Cf. 186-7.

Mark

P&O Line
In use 1920 - 1940s
Maker - Unknown

Today's sestertius is a fairly young Commodus - but not as young as I had guessed at first glance.
Commodus is one of those "Royal Brats", who, like Caracalla, had a progression of realistic portraiture on his coinage - everything from a baby-book portrait to a brutally frank, "mature" image of a madman, just before his death at the ripe old age of 29. Caracalla looks every bit the cruel, brother-murdering, dissipate despot in his final coin portraits.
Commodus' portrait-artists were a little kinder towards the end of his rule, but only slightly - this, however, isn't really the point today - just cited to let you know that on some Roman coins, not only are the portraits so realistic as to have you recognizing Hadrian's or Septimius Severus'
look-alikes on the street today, but some of the longer-lived emperors who began their careers as child-Caesars can nearly be dated at a glance from the progression of the portrait - not unlike recognizing cars' model-years in the 1950's by the cut of this year's tailfin... Oh dear, I'm showing my age - and beginning to wander ( ;<{D}.

1586 Hans Krauwincel II Rose orb Jeton

Royal Artillery button

Dates - 1840 - 1855

1553- 86 AD Hans Schultes I ‘Lion of St Mark’ Jetton

obv Lion of St mark standing left, nimbate and winged, holding book of the Gospels in right fore paw: Lions halo orjecting into the margin and surmounted by a cross

+ SANT:MARGVS:NORPED

Rev Imperial orb surmouned by cross patty

HANS rosette SCHVTLTES rosette NORNBE

Ref Mitchiner 1382

Britain's Merchant Navy
Generic Design Issue
In use 1900 - 2000's

Bliss Bros Ltd

Rd 665050

1572-3 Elizabeth 1st hammered silver sixpence

3rd Issue Ermine mintmark

Circa 15th to 17th century

16th/17thC
Asymmetrical, flat mount with two integral pointed lugs

Circa 16th century
A mount with a hooked end on which a captive plain copper-alloy ring is usually fitted. The mount is generally of trapezoidal shape with a V-shaped top edge and a transverse groove above the hook. It has two rivet holes on the vertical centre-line.

RN (Canada) Vol. - 1914
R.N.V.
In use 1914 - 1920
Maler = No maker's name
Normal - Right exit for rope

Copper-alloy mount; circular, flat;2 integral lugs. Decoration: floral

Saxon period buckle - classic circle decoration - one for the museum

4.73g, 26.71mm L x 12.57mm W

This would have been a monster find in one piece

1638 Charles 1st milled silver crown - first of the milled test pieces

 

Solid silver decorated pin head probably 15th/16thC Tudor - reported to museum as treasure

1.66g, 9.56mm dia

UNITED KINGDOM
MN - Cunard Line
In use 1860 - 1901
Maker - Unknown

James 1st gold angel 2nd coinage revalued - XIs

1614-25 James 1st hammered copper farthing Type 3c

 

Robert FitzWalter - enameled 13thC heraldic shield pendant

Or a fess between two chevrons gules

Robert le FizWater

 

In 1206 King John refused to agree to Pope Innocent III's choice of Archbishop of Canterbury after his own choice had been rejected. Because the king still challenged the pope, in 1207 he was excommunicated (not allowed to be a member of the church) and an 'interdict' was issued by the pope.

1.16g, 10.98mm

Series D (Type 2c) (North 168) EMC 2007.0239.

1327 - 1335 Edward III Florin hammered silver penny, first coinage

EDWAR ANGL DNS HYB

CIVITAS CANTOR - Canterbury mint

'This is a denarius of Trajan (98-117 A.D.) From the "COS V" (5th consulship) in the reverse legend, as well as the form of the obverse legend we can date it to the period of 103-111 A.D. Further research and hoard evidence on the series dates this particular piece to 109 A.D.
Obverse legend: IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P. Laureate head right with light drapery on far shoulder. The legend expands to: Imperator Trajan Augustus, Germanicus, Dacicus (titles indicating his victories in Germany and Dacia) Pontifex Maximus (Honorary high priest and head of the State
religion) Tribunicia Potestatum (holder ot the tribunician powers) Trajan was much given to long-winded legends tending towards laundry lists of his honorary titlature.
Reverse legend: COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI (Consul for the 5th time, father of the country, by the power of the senate and people of Rome, the Best Prince) Pax standing left, holding olive-branch and leaning on column.
Catalog numbers for this piece are RIC II 126, RSC 83, and SR 3126 It's considered "common"

3.04g,18.24

Cleaned using the oil and lemon juice 'cooked' method

Silver Roman coin sent for ID - 4.72g,18.99

Your piece is going to have to get a little cleaner or show a little more detail before I'll go out on any limbs with it, but if I'm interpreting what I believe to be the obverse correctly, I'm going to make a wild guess it's a Flavian - more likely Vespasian or Titus than Domitian - more than that I cannot say at this time.

Mark

Richard 1st (1189 -1190 AD ) hammered silver short cross penny Class 2 X pomme

Canterbury mint - Moneyer GOLDWINE

1344 - 1351 AD Edward III florin type hammered silver penny

EDWAR R ANGL DNS HYB

CIVI TAS LONDON - London mint

1242-1247 Henry III hammered silver penny Class 7

Canterbury mint - Moneyer IOAN CHIC

1805 Christian VII Skilling, DANSK silver coin

This is 2 Skilling (if it weighs 1.5 g) from Norway under the rule of the Danish King
Christian VII. You can tell that the coin is made in Norway and not in Denmark, by the
crossed hammers dividing the year.

Obverse: Crowned monogram of King Christian VII
Reverse: (2) / SKILLIN(G) / DANSK / SKILLE / MYNT / 18 "hammers" 05 / (I)GM

IGM is the mintmaster Johan Georg Madelung 1797-1806.

1787 Denmark Christian VII

This is a 2 1/2 Schilling (or 1/24 Speciesthaler) from Schleswig-Holstein under the Danish King Christian VII. This is 37.5% silver and should weigh 2.8 g.

Obverse: Crowned monogram of Christian VII dividing value (1/24 - SP)
Reverse: 2 1/2 - SCHILLING - SCHLESW.HOLST - COURANT - 1787 - MF

MF is the mintmaster Michael Flor

1604 - 7 James 1st Irish hammered silver 6 pence - 2nd coinage

Rev TUEATUR UNITA DEUS - May god guard the Kingdom

Obv - IACOBUS D.D. ANG SCO FRA ET HIB REX -James by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland

1199 King John hammered silver penny Class 5b 16.78mm,1.10g

Mint NOR (Northampton) - Moneyer ROBERT T

 

Stunning early 15thC Jetton

1577 Elizabeth 1st hammered silver 3 pence - 3rd issue

Eglantine mintmark

1643-4 Charles 1st hammered silver half groat (2 pence)

Worcs or Shrewd mint

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