Please Help Identify Ancient Roman Coin

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bajkonyr Valued Member United States 51 Posts	Posted 01/16/2015 2:26 pm Hi everyone and thanks for your help in id-ing this coin. Edited by bajkonyr 01/16/2015 5:20 pm Report this Post to the Staff

Medieval Pillar of the Community 3772 Posts	Posted 01/16/2015 5:00 pm Can you please post larger/clearer images. This will allow to read (most of) the legends and make it easy to make a proper attribution. Report this Post to the Staff
bajkonyr Valued Member United States 51 Posts	Posted 01/16/2015 5:20 pm Done Report this Post to the Staff
Ben Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 4208 Posts	Posted 01/16/2015 5:29 pm Thats a denarius of Antoninus Pius. Someone has either defaced it or tried to clean it with a jackhammer. Part of the reverse legend reads 'IMP VI' - this is the date mark, meaning this was struck in the sixth year of his reign, about 144AD (its the regnal date system, about the only thing the romans had, though an aureus of hadrian has the AUC date (since the founding of Rome) and theycertainly kept track of it, issuing a coin celebrating 1000AUC - though marked with the regnal year system). I couldnt check the reverse type. Report this Post to the Staff
Medieval Pillar of the Community 3772 Posts	Posted 01/16/2015 5:47 pm Agree with Ben on the identification and the aggressive cleaning approach. 'bajkonyr', can you please add weight, diameter and material. Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 01/16/2015 5:50 pm Actually it's Marcus Auerlius with the legend of: M ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXVI. The reverse legend is : IMP VI COS II, Type: Aequitas standing left holding scale and cornucopia. Report this Post to the Staff
Medieval Pillar of the Community 3772 Posts	Posted 01/16/2015 6:00 pm @ 'echizento', today your eyes are definitely better than mine. The reverse looks like Aequitas but cannot find it with that legend. Report this Post to the Staff
vermontensium Moderator United States 16679 Posts	Posted 01/16/2015 6:38 pm That's what I was going to say Ron. I know, I have one :-) Appears to have been either tooled or graffitied. swcoin.ecrater.com Report this Post to the Staff
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