Billon Antoninianus of Tacitus EF

From the series of the famous Constantinian Dynasty, we are now offering Constantine II, the son who thought that he should have ruled alone as the eldest. Probably born in A.D. 316 to Constantine the Great, Constantine Junior was raised to the rank of Caesar very young in A.D. 317, showing some military prowess in the next 20 years. On the death of his father in A.D. 337, he was made Senior Augustus and given Spain, Gaul, and Britain to rule. He thought he deserved more so set out to take from his younger brother, Constans, in Italy. But Constantine was ambushed by his brother’s troops and killed in A.D. 340, lasting only three years. We offer bronze coins struck A.D. 330-337 with the reverse ‘GLORIA EXERCITVS’ or ‘Glory to the Army’. Here we offer the coin in Very Fine, very reasonable for a coin almost 2,000 years old. Get it now, so you won't feel jealous later...

Gallienus ruled as sole emperor from 260-268 AD during one of the most difficult periods in the history of the Roman empire. Not only was the empire facing invasions on all sides but Gallienus had to face at least eight rebellions from his own governors and generals! During his reign, Gallienus issued a fantastic group of coins that we refer to as the ‘Zoo Series’ featuring a variety of animals, some real and some mythical, to honour the gods and asking for their protection. What makes these coins even more interesting is that we know that they circulated in Britain at the time because a large quantity of these types was found in the Mildenhall hoard in 1978 which is now in the British Museum. The coins would have been struck on the continent and transported to Britain. Here we offer the coins showing the Hippocamp, a mythological sea monster with the head and front legs of a horse but the winding tail of a fish or dolphin. These were struck to honour Neptune, the Roman god of the sea.

This Liberty Head Nickel was an American five-cent coin, issued for circulation from 1883 until 1912. It replaced the copper-nickel five-cent coin with the Shield struck in the early 1880s. Designed by Charles Barber it went into production in 1883. On the obverse is the classic head of Liberty, the reverse has a large roman numeral ‘V’ inside a wreath indicating the denomination of the coin and the word ‘cents’ below. In 1912 it was replaced by the Buffalo nickel.