Posted 01/02/2014 10:48 am
Much to my own surprise I 'think' I can see a left facing portrait and a figure on what looks to be reverse seated facing left. Probably from the 'east' either a Roman provincial or later Greek type possibly from Syria. I doubt that you can get much more attribution than that (we are covering a span of about 400 years !)
My guess is anywhere between 200BC to AD200
You probably overpaid a bit but the cost of driving to a coin show/shop would have set you back more. Its always nice to have at least one ancient around just to remind you of your own place in the universe. For about $5-10 you can actually buy a reasonably decent bronze that you can nail down to a person place and time. I found a reasonably nice 3rd century silver 'antoninianus' at a flea market once for $10. Nobody apparently believed it was real and the fellow just wanted to be rid of it.
I was happy to help him out.
My guess is anywhere between 200BC to AD200
You probably overpaid a bit but the cost of driving to a coin show/shop would have set you back more. Its always nice to have at least one ancient around just to remind you of your own place in the universe. For about $5-10 you can actually buy a reasonably decent bronze that you can nail down to a person place and time. I found a reasonably nice 3rd century silver 'antoninianus' at a flea market once for $10. Nobody apparently believed it was real and the fellow just wanted to be rid of it.
I was happy to help him out.
Edited by FVRIVS RVFVS
01/02/2014 10:49 am
01/02/2014 10:49 am
