Coinmaster Posted July 16 · Member Share Posted July 16 Hi all, Has anyone seen this coin like object before? Could this be a award/stipendium for high ranking military? Votis Vicennalibus - vows (prayers) for twenty years of rule. Could this be from 320: Licinius and Constantine? Where does the NN stands for? The graffiti is CCAA and stands for Cologne (Köln). https://hdl.handle.net/21.12126/131796 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rasiel Posted July 16 · Member Share Posted July 16 Whenever you see doubled up letters think plural. AVGG NN = Augusti nostrorum (our lords) I would guess later, maybe to the reign of Valentinian I and Valens, after an edict by Julian II for regional taxes to be melted down into bullion before handing it over to the mints (as an anti-counterfeiting measure). Rasiel 3 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romismatist Posted July 16 · Member Share Posted July 16 Never seen anything like this before. Based on the style, are you sure it's not a modern fantasy piece? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocatarinetabellatchitchix Posted July 16 · Member Share Posted July 16 Maybe you can have access to the CIL (Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum) on the web ? 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coinmaster Posted July 17 · Member Author Share Posted July 17 8 hours ago, Romismatist said: Never seen anything like this before. Based on the style, are you sure it's not a modern fantasy piece? Yes, it's found in the river Waal, Gelderland, The Netherlands and bought by the museum in 1898. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heliodromus Posted July 17 · Member Share Posted July 17 (edited) There's another one here, sold privately, also found in the river Waal, but more recently in the 1930s. The weights of these are interesting. The RMO one weighs 306g, and the above one 303g. Somtimes these types of largitio (= largess) weigh a roman pound (libre) of c.329g, which seems less random, but evidentially this weight of c.305g was also a standard for these gifts, per the above pieces and also a series of silver dishes given by Licinius of same weight such as this one in the BM of 304.6g (another Vienna 308g). https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1969-0904-1 I'd be curious if anyone knows anything about this ~305g (11 unciae) weight standard. Edited July 17 by Heliodromus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romismatist Posted July 17 · Member Share Posted July 17 Curious indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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