Help wanted - Rome and India [resuelto]

Hi to all,

I've bought some coins last friday, and these one are yet to be identified:


On #1 the emperor's name is cut by the edge. 20 mm.
The #2 looks like a Licinius follis, "SOLI INVICTO" type. 20 mm. If correct, what city/mint it's from?


On #3's holder it was only written "India princely states, paisa". 20 mm. By the way, I have zero experience of indian kingdoms, it's my first one.

There are others, but they're already identified when I bought or I could figure out on myself (thanks Petrus Ascanus for the post about sasanian coins on this forum yesterday, I got one too and I was about to ask the same thing).

Thanks to all who read this.

The third coin is a very nice example of an "octopus man" copper kahavanu of the Chola dynasty in southern India and Sri Lanka. While these are often attributed (and misattributed) to Rajaraja Chola (985-1014 AD), there are several later rulers with very similar coins. The specific writing on yours identifies it as a coin of Sahasa Malla, 1200-1202 AD. Here are a couple of links:

http://ceylonweb.tripod.com/sahasa_malla.htm

https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=192259

Cita: "Seeker55"​The third coin is a very nice example of an "octopus man" copper kahavanu of the Chola dynasty in southern India and Sri Lanka. While these are often attributed (and misattributed) to Rajaraja Chola (985-1014 AD), there are several later rulers with very similar coins. The specific writing on yours identifies it as a coin of Sahasa Malla, 1200-1202 AD. Here are a couple of links:
​
​http://ceylonweb.tripod.com/sahasa_malla.htm
​
​https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=192259

​Wow, I thought it was more recent.
It's already on Numista: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces10554.html.
Thanks!!!

Hello Giobruno,
Your first coin is a maiorina of the cesar Decentius, struck in Arles (France) in the year 352,
matching with RIC #182, Cohen #35, Bastien #269b, Ferrando #1148 and Ferrando II #1318.

Obverse:
Description: Cuirassed bust right of Decentius, bare head, with an A behind the neck.
Lettering: D (-ominus) N (-oster) DECENTIVS CAESAR: "Our lord the cesar Decentius".

Reverse:
Description: Two Victories standing facing each other, holding between them a shield on which is written in four lines: VOT (-is) V (= quinquennalibus) MVL (-tis) X (= decennalibus); C above IS in the field under the shield.
Lettering: VICTORIAE DD (= duorum dominorum) NN (= duorum nostrorum) AVG (-ustorum) ET CAE (-sarum) : "The victories of our two lords the augusts and our two lords the cesars".

[Officina] S (-ecunda) AR (-elatensis) in exergue ("Second officina of Arles").

Your second Roman coin was struck in the mint of Rome.

Regards.

Cita: "Quiquengrogne"​Hello Giobruno,
​Your first coin is a maiorina of the cesar Decentius, struck in Arles (France) in the year 352,
​matching with RIC #182, Cohen #35, Bastien #269b, Ferrando #1148 and Ferrando II #1318.
​
​Obverse:
​Description: Cuirassed bust right of Decentius, bare head, with an A behind the neck.
​Lettering: D (-ominus) N (-oster) DECENTIVS CAESAR: "Our lord the cesar Decentius".
​
​Reverse:
​Description: Two Victories standing facing each other, holding between them a shield on which is written in four lines: VOT (-is) V (= quinquennalibus) MVL (-tis) X (= decennalibus); C above IS in the field under the shield.
​Lettering: VICTORIAE DD (= duorum dominorum) NN (= duorum nostrorum) AVG (-ustorum) ET CAE (-sarum) : "The victories of our two lords the augusts and our two lords the cesars".
​
​[Officina] S (-ecunda) AR (-elatensis) in exergue ("Second officina of Arles").
​
​Your second Roman coin was struck in the mint of Rome.
​
​Regards.

​Many thanks to you.

Case closed.

The Ceylon massa has a lot of replica's, it is difficult to say if it is real or not.
Please read this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonnaruwa_period
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Dambadeniya
https://sirimunasiha.wordpress.com/about/the-coins-of-pandyan-and-colas-found-in-srilanka/
http://coins.lakdiva.org/medievallanka/polonnaruva.html
http://coins.lakdiva.org/medievallanka/dambadeniya.html

Cita: "PetrusAscanus"​The Ceylon massa has a lot of replica's, it is difficult to say if it is real or not.
​Please read this:
​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonnaruwa_period
​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Dambadeniya
​https://sirimunasiha.wordpress.com/about/the-coins-of-pandyan-and-colas-found-in-srilanka/
​http://coins.lakdiva.org/medievallanka/polonnaruva.html
​http://coins.lakdiva.org/medievallanka/dambadeniya.html
​

​Thanks.
For now I'll assume it's real. If it's fake, then it's a very well done one. All I can say is that's not a chinese copy.