Roman Coin? Constantine?, Dug up with the potatoes Options

[stanley]

[attachment=794:Roman_coin_2.jpg]Dug this up with the potatoes. now its clean would like to know more.

Suffolk England

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[hussulo]

Hopefully some one else like jamesicus will be along to verify but I think I can see PNCONSTANS so I would say you were right with Constantine and on the reverse the mintmark looks like TRP Treveri (Trier, Germany)

as per this site:

http://www.time-lines.co.uk/glossary-of-an...rks-3042-0.html

You should really report it to your local finds officer. They may want to come and excavate more and if its in your land and they find more they will pay you a valuation fee or let you keep them.

[Mule]

Hi Stanley

Congratulations on digging up this little beaut!

It looks to me like Constans, who reigned from 337 to 353 AD and was the son of Constantine the Great, who was famously the first Christian Roman Emperor. The legend says "D N CONSTANS P F AVG".

We call the coin an "AE3", because we don't know what the proper names of Roman coins were at this time. Copper coins are just called AE1 to AE4 depending on their size.

The picture on the back is quite an interesting one. If you hold it so the letters "TR P" are at the bottom, it shows a Roman cavalryman galloping towards you, as if he's about to pass to your right, and spearing a fallen enemy cavalryman as he passes. It's a very daring design, especially for such a little coin.

The legend on the back always amuses me. It says "FEL TEMP REPARATIO", which loosely translates as "Happy days are here again". Only the Romans could depict a scene of slaughter on their coins and give it a legend like that, eh?


Mule

[Guest_Guest_stanley_*_*]

Hi Stanley

Congratulations on digging up this little beaut!

It looks to me like Constans, who reigned from 337 to 353 AD and was the son of Constantine the Great, who was famously the first Christian Roman Emperor. The legend says "D N CONSTANS P F AVG".

We call the coin an "AE3", because we don't know what the proper names of Roman coins were at this time. Copper coins are just called AE1 to AE4 depending on their size.

The picture on the back is quite an interesting one. If you hold it so the letters "TR P" are at the bottom, it shows a Roman cavalryman galloping towards you, as if he's about to pass to your right, and spearing a fallen enemy cavalryman as he passes. It's a very daring design, especially for such a little coin.

The legend on the back always amuses me. It says "FEL TEMP REPARATIO", which loosely translates as "Happy days are here again". Only the Romans could depict a scene of slaughter on their coins and give it a legend like that, eh?
Mule

Thanks chaps you have all been really helpful you never know I might find some more with the leeks? LOL.