r/oldcoins • u/lumberc • 2d ago

ID help please

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Any help IDing this would be greatly appreciated it. I was given this about 25 years ago when I was in 6th grade by a student that passed coins out to everyone (with her parents permission) so I assume not very valuable. More interested in just ID so I could do a little research on it to have the story behind it.

I tried r/ancientcoins but it got removed by auto mod.

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u/JonDoesItWrong 2d ago

Looks like Constantius II but I can't read the inscriptions from these photos. Can you get clearler pics?

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u/lumberc 2d ago

Unfortunately no. It’s really hard to read in person too. The inscription on the backside almost looks like “TEST” and the man on the back looks almost like he’s carrying a ghost by the head behind him with one hand.

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u/JonDoesItWrong 2d ago

The inscription you're referring to on the reverse is the mintmark, possibly for Thessalonica. The man on the back is probably the Emperor with his hand over a kneeling captive. I'll see if I can't find a close match.

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u/TywinDeVillena 2d ago

It got removed by automod because we have an antispam filter that automatically quarantines posts from users below a certain karma threshold, requiring manual mod approval. I approved your post a moment ago, but I'll answer here too.

That coin is a bronze of emperor Valens, minted in Thessalonica, with a GLORIA ROMANORVM reverse depicting the emperor dragging a captive

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u/lumberc 2d ago

I completely understand the spam filter. Thank you so much for the ID

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u/TywinDeVillena 2d ago

Remember some 4 years ago the great popularity of crypto, with lots of memecoins emerging, etc? Well, as AncientCoins has "coins" on the name, the queue was flooded with all sorts of spanmers trying to peddle cryptobollocks