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The third coin is an issue of Augustus with Agrippa from Nimes (Nemausus).
The obverse shows their heads back to back, above the inscription should read IMP, below DIVI F and a P each side.
The reverse has a crocodil with a palm tree behind COL and NEM either side of the palm tree.
The coin was minted late BC or early AD. What is the diameter and weight?
The condition the coin is in might make it impossible to attribute it to a specific RPC (Roman Provincial Coinage) number but the type is quite clear not a bad coin.
Note: Don't waste space around the coin, you can a larger image/clearer image in, which would be helpful for the 2nd and 4th coin.
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OK better pictures, but we still need size and weight as I said in your last thread. Also if they are the same coin you should have just added them to the first thread instead on starting a new one. We can't have numerous threads with the same coins.
Your first coin as I said earlier is a Ptolemy, which one I can't tell without the size and weight and still it would be a guess.
The second coin looks like Antoninius Pius, I can't be sure if it's a sestertius or an As weight the size and weight. The third coin has been IDed by others. The last coin I can't say for sure, the condition isn't that good, so better pictures will be need to ID that one.
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Second one is Commodus, but can't help much more than that
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I will add weights and sizes to this thread. Do they look authentic?
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Second one down is indeed Commodus and show the emperor, in a toga, sacrificing over a tripod.
Commodus AE Sestertius. AD 184. M COMMODVS ANTON AVG PIVS BRIT, laureate head right / VOTA SVSCEP DECEN P M TR P VI IMP IIII around, COS IIII P P in ex., S-C across fields, Commodus, togate, standing left, sacrificing over a tripod.
The metal should be brass, but when old coinage was melted, the zinc content boiled off - eventually they ended up with just copper.
The last is Vespasian and reads CONCORDIA AVGVSTI - it shows Concordia, seated left, holing a cornucopia and a patera, S C below (Senatus Consulto - with the senates permission, basically).
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Arnoldoe you might be right, but it looks more like AP to me. I can't make out any of the legend, are you able too?
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To me it looks like MCommodvs on the left
Edited by arnoldoe
12/17/2014 8:16 pm
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OK, I can just barely make it out. Commodus it is.
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