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I think you will find that it says COS 111 and not COH.
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Thanks Philus. It was hard to tell if it was an H or an S.
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The references to the military on coins tend to relate more to legions and one very good example are those of Marc Antony from Actium.
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Yeah, I was wondering because I know there were several coins of Phillip the Arab found at Caesaria which had VI Ferrata on them. I've been trying to find at least an image of one.
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Searched through it several times with cntrl+F and several keywords and found nothing of VI Ferrata. Did it on the Gordian III and Phillip II Pages as well.
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Thanks.
I'm still hunting for one of Legio VI Ferrata that was supposedly found in Caesarea and dated to his reign.
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Moderator posting links to site selling unprovenanced artifacts. Good job. Probably you should read the forum rules which you link in your signature:
Quote:4. No advertising of unprovenanced archaeological/cultural goods for sale. Members may post links to specific images (.jpg/.gif) on sale sites, but not the listing or home site itself. If you can show that the item is provenanced or held by a museum/established collector, you may discuss the items for sale. When in doubt, ask a moderator! This policy exists to discourage the trade in illegal antiquities, which destroys countless archaeological sites in the hunt for artifacts.
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Vcoins sells coins... not unprovenanced artefacts. Most of these coins are in private collections. So what?
By that logic my two Bronzes of Theodosius and Constantine I are unprovenanced even though I acquired them legally and they are authentic.
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So coins are not artifacts? Jeez. The rule is about looting. Most of these coins come from looting.
And I very much assume that your coins are by that and any other logic unprovenanced, yes.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unprovenanced
Or had they been published before you bought them? Where exactly and when and under which circumstances were they found, and if they were excavated properly: which site, which stratum, which ground line? If you do not have these infos, they are unprovenanced.
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That varies from country to country.
Usually provenance only comes into play with big-ticket auction coins.
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Quote:That varies from country to country.
Usually provenance only comes into play with big-ticket auction coins.
What has that to do with the question whether they are unprovenanced or not? And the meaning of the term "provenance" is AFAIK a general one, not changing as one crosses borders. Read the link under forum rule #4, I suggest, that´s why it´s there.
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I meant what counts as looting and legally obtaining is based on that particular country's laws
EDIT: As for my coins... no clue. They're Late Roman Bronzes (AE4), not worth much more than like 20 dollars combined and probably come from Anatolia. I don't think anyone would give a damn about them even if they were unprovenanced. It's not like they're going to be big ticket auction items.
). It looks like there's a post that says "COH III" in the middle.
