Another Massachusetts Beach Find

AE Dupondius of Marcus Aurelius circa AD 170. I tend to agree that someone 'dropped' it accidentally. These bronze coins would not do well sitting in a salty sea shore for 2,000 years.
I think it unlikely a Roman ship beached itself on Nantucket or that "Wrong Way" Ragnar the Viking paid a visit in the 10th century. Thinking back myself I once had a Roman Republican silver denarius which someone had filed into a perfectly round disk (destroying it really) which I carried in my 'key pocket' of my Levi's back in College. Of course I eventually lost it. Someone in Amherst Massachusetts may someday be puzzling much the same questions.

RIC 1092 (Sear 5053)

http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/...elius/t.html

Marcus Aurelius AE Dupondius, AD 172-173. M ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXVII, radiate head right / VICT GERMA IMP VI COS III SC in five lines within wreath. RIC 1092; Cohen 997; Sear 5053.

A dealer might ask $10 for it from a 'junk box' but on ebay you might get half that. Amazing that something so old and interesting will sell for around 25 cents a century.
But that is the way it is. Well worth keeping as a souvenir.
Maybe you can loose it someday and start the cycle all over again.

Glad to know it looks authentic and I will hang on to it. My father used to carry it wrapped in Saran Wrap in his wallet.