Anyone Know What Kind Of Coins These Are?

thanks for the reply, hope you are able to find more info on this. I have asked some local coin people and no one can give me anything about it. I have some others as well, all are different images and text, if you are interested I can upload more images when I get a chance. some are the size of a US dime, nikel and quater. Teh one above is about the size of a quarter. I assuem they are bronze in material. The one pictured is in rougher condition then the others, the others are in better shape.

Thats the worst? Lucky you. Id be happy to see more pictures - post em and ill see what I can find. Most of the later roman coins like this one dont have much meaning. Perhaps this one was for a tax or something because its got a very odd legend to it.

If you are interested, the coin shows the roman god MONETA holding a conucopia and scales. Diocletian was emperor for 20 years - he assumed the purple (the emperor wore a special purple toga, this means assumed the crown these days) after Numerian and Carus died. BUT! Numerian's son Carinus also tried to claim the thrown as the rightful emperor. Diocletian was sort of a Usurper. He defeated Carinus in the battle of Margus. He was a good emperor - he secured the borders of the empire, defeated some of Romes enemies in combat and formed a Tetrarchy under which each Caesar (one rank lower than Augustus, the emperor) controlled 1 quarter of the roman empire. His Caesars were Galerius and Constantius I and the other member of the tetrarchy was the emperor of the West, Maximian (After 286, 3 years into his rule, he split the empire, taking the East).

EDIT: Value: The rarity of C means common. This means many hundreds exist. It would be worth, in this condition, more than $10 because it is not the most commonly seen follis design, but its not worth what I think it should be worth. I suggest you keep it. Display it on a little stand, its a nice one with full legends.

I didnt welcome a new guy? Where are my manners,

just a little histroy on these, as I said my granfather owned farm land in Lebanon. his crew of laborers where digging, planting trees or something and they came accross a chest full of these types of coins. He cherry picked the coins in good condition and saved them for himself, called the archiology department of one of the colleges in Beirut and they came out to see his find. He ended up selling them a bunch of the coins and kept the rest. My father to this day (75 years later) still has a bunch of them. I have a dozen or so of them framed and presented on a wall in my office, I figured they would not have any significant value but the story behind them makes me happy to own them. My father never gave me a dollar amount but they way I understand it my grandfather profited greatly from the coins he sold many many years ago.

i will Pm you a picture of the others, cant figure out how to post pic inside this thread

It's best to start a new thread for a new coin.

They all seem to be nice coins, but if you want them IDed it's best to post one or two coins at a time.