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[M.K.D]

Here is a list of 3 coins this time i have take the pictures with proffesional photo camera and on each picture it is written the size and the weight

1 - 30mm-14grams
2- 20mm-7grams
3-27mm -9.48 grams

 

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[Mackaydon]

Third coin: (best guess)
The mint is Serdic (Sophia, Bulgaria). Probably years of mintage: 303-305 AD.
Constantinvs. Reverse : GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius of the Roman people with modius on head, holding cornucopia and pouring libations from patera; E right; (dot)SM(dot)SD(dot) in exergue..
Don.......

 

[Mackaydon]

The first coin is Byzantine minted in Constantinople. (CON). The "M" is a Greek letter indicating the value in nummi; M for 40 nummi; commonly called a follis. Too tired tonight to continue; will do more tomorrow in the event the coin is not ID-ed completely.
Don.....

 

[Chilli]

Here is a list of 3 coins this time i have take the pictures with proffesional photo camera and on each picture it is written the size and the weight

1 - 30mm-14grams
2- 20mm-7grams
3-27mm -9.48 grams

Oh man! I just wish here we could find things like that!
Awesome finds!

 

[M.K.D]

Third coin: (best guess)
The mint is Serdic (Sophia, Bulgaria). Probably years of mintage: 303-305 AD.
Constantinvs. Reverse : GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius of the Roman people with modius on head, holding cornucopia and pouring libations from patera; E right; (dot)SM(dot)SD(dot) in exergue..
Don.......

thank you Don

The first coin is Byzantine minted in Constantinople. (CON). The "M" is a Greek letter indicating the value in nummi; M for 40 nummi; commonly called a follis. Too tired tonight to continue; will do more tomorrow in the event the coin is not ID-ed completely.
Don.....

When you have free time you can look once again ... i will post more coins latter today

 

[M.K.D]

Oh man! I just wish here we could find things like that!
Awesome finds!

tnx Chilli i will post more finds in the following days

 

[Red-Coat]

Although it’s not legible in full, the legend on your second coin will read “ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΜΑΚΕ∆ΟΝΩΝ”. The words are around a Macedonian shield in a double ring of pellets. It’s a common reverse type for Macedonian coins.

The term “koinon” variously translates as “community, alliance or league” and the “Koinon of the Macedonians” was a collective of self-governing regional communities united around a central leader, with its capital in the city of Beroia. Coins bearing this inscription were continuously produced from the time of Philip I in 238 BC until well into the Roman period.

Your coin is actually from the Roman period. Macedonia was conquered by Rome in 146 BC but the obverse (which has a Roman Emperor portrait) includes the word “KAICAP” in the legend, the Greek equivalent for the Latin “Caesar”. That puts it after AD 68, when the word first began to be used as a leadership title rather than a familial name. Unfortunately, the emperor name is obscured but it would be something like “AΔRIANOC KAICAP” for Hadrian, “NEPΩN KAICAP” for Nero, or whatever. It's tough to identify Roman emperors from the portrait alone, so I can’t say which emperor, except that it’s from someone who ruled after AD 68 and likely not much later than the end of the second century AD.

It was common practice for Rome not to erase the national identity of conquered provincial territories as long as civil order was maintained and taxes were paid. So, the coin shows a territory clearly under Roman Imperial rule but acknowledges the heritage of its people as Macedonians. At the end of the second century, the koinon was reorganized and largely absorbed into the Empire; any sense of Greek/Macedonian civic identity within the province had disappeared by the beginning of the fourth century.

Because of our modern uncertainties about the way Greek denominations were integrated into the Roman currency system, these copper/bronze coins are usually just catalogued by their diameter in millimetres, so Æ20 in this case.

 

[Chilli]

tnx Chilli i will post more finds in the following days

Love seeing those finds. Unfortunately our country is very young. 1800s our limit here.
Good luck.👍

 

[CRUSADER]

Coin no.3

Follis of Constantinvs I 305-306 AD
Obv: IMP C FL VAL CONSTANTIVS PF AVG
Rev: GENIO POPVLI ROMANI

Constantius I AE Follis. IMP C FL VAL CONSTANTIVS PF AVG, laureate head right / GENIO POPV-L-I ROMANI, Genius standing left, modius on head, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder, holding patera and cornucopiae. B in right field. Mintmark SM dot SD dot. RIC VI Serdica 12a; Sear 14179.

 

[Mackaydon]

I'd call coin #1 a Justinian I follis. MInt range 527-565 AD at Constantinople.
Large 'M', cross above, star to left, officina (below M) obscured.
Don.....