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Offline Crassus

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CONSECRATIO - Help ID
« on: August 06, 2018, 09:38:52 am »
Hi dear friend
I need hlp to correct ID of thi coin, in revere is clear CONSECRATIO, but in obverse is not clear for me, DIVO ........, can you help me?

Offline Dominic T

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Re: CONSECRATIO - Help ID
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2018, 04:07:41 pm »
Hi. It’s hard to see clearly on my cell phone screen, but if it could help, I have two similar coin : divo marco and divo marco antonino.
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Re: CONSECRATIO - Help ID
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2018, 04:51:27 pm »
I'm struggling with the legend on the obverse but it looks like it's 10-11 letters and on the reverse, it looks like the eagle is standing left.

I don't think it is Marcus Aurelius as his legends on this type are either shorter (DIVO MARCO) or much longer. Plus the condition suggests low silver content more consistent with later issues (the Marcus Aurelius commemoratives I have seen online all look like they had a reasonable silver content still).

I suspect that Claudius II Gothicus or Carus are the most likely candidates - either DIVO CLAVDIO or DIVO CARO PIO (or possibly DIVO CARO AVG), and out of those I think it's probably Caro as I think I can read DIV? ?A?O??? and DIVO CLAVDIO doesn't fit that pattern.. but then a lot of those "?"'s don't look like the missing parts of DIVO CARO PIO/AVG either so I might be misleading you!

Compare:

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=246658 Carus

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=69548 Claudius II Gothicus

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2434052 Marcus Aurelius

And have a look at these search results for more

http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=fulltext%3Aconsecratio%20AND%20fulltext%3Aeagle%20AND%20fulltext%3Aradiate&start=0

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=radiate+consecratio+eagle&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1&order=2&currency=eur&company=

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Re: CONSECRATIO - Help ID
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2018, 11:26:22 am »
Playing around with the picture with photo editing software produced a photo that may help with identification.
At least the letters of the obverse legend are a bit clearer.

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Re: CONSECRATIO - Help ID
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Offline Crassus

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Re: CONSECRATIO - Help ID
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Offline Ed D

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Re: CONSECRATIO - Help ID
« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2018, 12:04:54 pm »
Not Carus for sure, probably Claudius Gothicus.

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Re: CONSECRATIO - Help ID
« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2018, 01:31:36 pm »
Divo Clavdio is closer in obverse legend and style but does not fit totaly well (in particular number of letters). So it could be an imitative radiate or a coin with some striking problem.

 

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