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artx

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help with roman? ancient gold coin
« on: December 01, 2014, 12:18:04 pm »
hi is this is a roman coin?

any help will be great.

Thanks.

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Re: help with roman? ancient gold coin
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2014, 12:25:35 pm »
This link may be helpful    orkshire_Museum.jpg " class="bbc_link" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_coin_at_the_Y orkshire_Museum.jpg
If you could type out what is says on the coin it would be helpful.  A little hard to read.

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Re: help with roman? ancient gold coin
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2014, 01:21:21 pm »
Yes, it looks like a gold Solidus of Valens (364-378) minted in Constantinople.
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Re: help with roman? ancient gold coin
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2014, 01:51:43 pm »
Somehow I knew you would know about this, Mat !!  Nice coin Artx !!

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Re: help with roman? ancient gold coin
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2014, 09:22:51 am »
thank you guys.

you helped me a lot.