ceca de impresion de moneda Romana

buenas, soy daniel y este es mi primer post,la pregunta es sobre mi Maiorina Constancius II y no posee exergo o esta desgastado, solo hay como dato una estrella en el campo al lado del soldado.Alguien tiene idea en donde fue impresa esta moneda ? desde ya gracias a todos. adjunto las fotos.

Bienvenido, recontradaniel

No soy experto en moneda romana, a lo más que llego con la tuya es a ver que es un bronce de la serie que llaman FEL TEMP REPARATIO. ¿La has buscado en el catálogo de Numista? Quizá su ficha te dé alguna pista.

En cualquier caso, puedes pedir ayuda llamando a este hilo a los revisores del Imperio romano: @John Conduitt  y  @Arendil 

I think it has to be Constantius II, RIC VIII Aquileia 228. So the mintmark would be •AQP• (P or S or T). It isn't on Numista yet.

Hi,

We can't read the mint mark. It's placed under a ground line but it isn't visible here.

John talks about Aquileia because he sees the top of an A but it's not a letter, it's the foot of the ridder who is falling.

The references of RIC VIII 228 is false. The reference has a M behind the bust but here, no letter behind bust and for these reference, the star on reverse is on center in reference book, so it's mean that the star is between the spear and the body of the soldier. But on your coin, the star is on left.

If we can't attribute it to Aquileia, with the engraving style, i would say it can be an eastern mint (Heraclea / Cyzicus / Thessalonica / Siscia / Sirmium / Constantinople) but it's not possible to determinate it. The only solution is to find an other coin struck with the exactly same dies and with the mintmark visible.

So, i would place these coin as a not determined mint, so it's not possible to enter it on Numista. 

Best regards,

Nicolas

Yes it is quite right it doesn't have the letter. I think it's easy to go blind looking through 300 almost identical coins!

I can find 10 coins with a star in the left field of the reverse and no letter on the obverse, and Constantius in a pearl diadem. 8 of them are AE2 and 2 are AE3, so knowing the diameter would help. All of them have:
Obverse: Bust of Constantius II, pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed, right; D N CONSTAN-TIVS P F AVG
Reverse: Soldier, helmeted, draped, cuirassed, advancing left, spearing fallen horseman with right hand and wearing shield on left arm; shield on ground to right; star in left field; FEL TEMP RE-PARATIO.

Apart from the coin size, the difference is on the reverse - whether the horseman is wearing a (pointed) cap or not, and whether he is falling forward clutching the horse's neck like this or facing the soldier and extending his right arm like this. I think it is clear he is extending his right arm on your coin, which narrows it down to four coins:

Large AE2 (about 25mm):
RIC VIII Antioch 122: Horseman wearing cap, facing soldier, extending right arm; AN(A/B/Γ/Δ/∈/S/Z/H/θ/I)
RIC VIII Nicomedia 62: Horseman wearing cap, facing soldier, extending right arm; SMN(A/B/Γ/Δ/∈/S)

AE3 (17-21mm):
RIC VIII Nicomedia 98: Horseman wearing cap, facing soldier, extending right arm; SMN(A/B/Γ/Δ/∈/S)
RIC VIII Cyzicus 113: Horseman wearing pointed cap, facing soldier, raising right arm; SMK(A/B/Γ/Δ/∈/S)

If your coin is about 25mm in diameter, you cannot tell the difference between RIC Antioch 122 and RIC Nicomedia 62 without the mintmark. But Antioch 122 appears to be the more common coin, so it is probably that (Antioch is ‘scarce’, Nicomedia is ‘rare', and Ocre has several examples of Antioch but none of Nicomedia).

I think your horseman does not have a pointed cap. So if your coin is 17-21mm, then it is possibly RIC Nicomedia 98. However, it is not easy to see if the hat is definitely not pointed, so maybe it is RIC Cyzicus 113, which is by far the more common coin (Cyzicus is ‘common’, Nicomedia is ‘rare', and Ocre has several examples of Cyzicus but none of Nicomedia).

None of these are on Numista. Your coin has no mintmark so can't really be the example, but you can add a page.

Hi John,

I see i touched you on the raw 😜.

Do you use the motor researcher of OCRE to verify which coins FEL TEMP are with a star in left field ?

I forgot Nicomedia in my list of eastern mints. But it's not the engraving style of Antioche. 

Not at all, the aim is to get the right attribution for the OP, and it needed a bit of effort with one of these. Unfortunately, the Romans made too many!