I guess I'm late XD but Martin has far nicer coins that I do. 

Nice!

Only one I have

Nice!

22 hours ago, Curtis JJ said:

 

(On the FH's, I particularly appreciate the collections of @maridvnvm and @Randygeki and @dougsmit who appear to have been very successfully obsessed with the type, much to the benefit of the rest of us.)

Was the Thessalonica mint's horseman a Western/Germanic "barbarian" or maybe even a Sarmatian?  Thessalonica's typical enemy is short haired and beardless, wearing shirt and trousers, but no hat / headwear. Sometimes Germanic captives were shown that way (on this Probus VICTORIA GERM Antoninianus, for example); but they could be beardless or bearded.

He's depicted like Constantine's Sarmatians (I believe Sarmatia was northward and eastward, on the north of the Black Sea, and at least on the same side of the empire as Thessalonica):

These guys with pointed hats/helmets from Siscia, Arles, Cyzicus, Aquileia (and, I'm sure, other mints) seem to depict "Eastern" foes:

However, oddly, this next one seems to be wearing a Roman-style knee-length tunic not the trousers typically associated with barbarians. (I.e., skirt, not pants, like the Roman spearing him.) For now I'm sticking with a tentative "Eastern" (Persian, Sassanid, et al.):

 

Even more challenging may be the more ambiguous bearded, trousered foes who are often depicted by the Constantinople and Antioch mints.

Sometimes they have helmets, sometimes braids. It's not entirely clear to me how many "types" of enemy they represent or whether any specific groups are even intended. I've seen them described as Sassanid/Persian (most often) or Germanic or simply generic enemies. I have hypotheses, but don't feel I have as much support for them as I'd like:

 

I've got at least dozens more of the fallen horsemen (probably hundred if you count all the low grade AE3s I've got in bags), and at least a few hundred total of the captives types overall (again, many of these are low grade a AE2s, AE3s, and AE4s, or very worn denarii, or Antoniniani of various degrees of debasement and preservation).

Sometimes it's worth it to have kept all those $3 examples. They don't make a random sample or even a census of types, but once in a while something comes up that they can help me answer (e.g., does the distribution of horseman types vary across the different mints, or between AE2 & AE3/AE4 and/or by emperor -- the FH1, FH2, FH3, and FH4 [?] categories). Being obsessed, it can be almost unthinkable to part with a duplicate, even if the 364th Constantius II AE3 is virtually unidentifiable and was destroyed by the previous owner's electrolysis experiments...

"To Obsession!"

Just a little obsessed 😉 When I get back to my collection, I'd like to make a galley set

2 hours ago, Steve said:

Great Fallen Horsemen, Martin (oh, and everybody else as well)

 

Fallen Horseman, eh? 

 

CONSTANTIUS II SILVERED AE2 (Maiorina/Centenonialis)

Heraclea mint, 1st Office

348-351 AD

Diameter: Large size: 22 mm

Weight: 5.1 grams

Obverse: : D N CONSTANTIVS P F AVG. Pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right

Reverse: FEL TEMP REPARATIO, soldier standing left, knee raised, spearing fallen horseman and is reaching backwards. Left field: Star. Mintmark SMHA in exergue

Reference: RIC VIII 67

Other: a great exemplar of this interesting coin, conserving full details including the 30% of the original silvering ... very strong relief 

Ex-stevex6

 

The poor lil' dude is gonna get a spear in the butt!!

Love that one!

My Amiens FH and one barb.

On 6/1/2022 at 9:33 AM, Alegandron said:

@Randygeki IS on Numis Forums. But has posted very little.

I need to start posting more 😕

Here are my last 3 FH (from 2 years ago 🙃)

Great coins all!

This is one of my favorite LRBs (that's not a FH). I loved how detailed it was.