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 Posted 06/17/2008  7:40 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add wwhitman to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Can anybody identify this Roman (I think0 coin
It is about 18 mm in diameter and made of silver
THANX in advance

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 Posted 06/17/2008  9:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It is indeed Roman, and there's plenty to go on.

"DOMIT" above the portrait led me to look up Domitian; on Wildwinds, this page illustrating Sear #2644 shows examples of coins much like yours.

The page shows coins both in normal "bottom-inwards" legend, and the unusual "bottom-outwards" style which appears on yours. I assume the two styles are actually attributed differently in the major references, as well as the "horse facing left" and "horse facing right" varieties.

If you've got a coin which you can only read some of the letters on, try using the Wildwinds partial inscription search. Just type in what you can read, and it'll try to find matches in it's database. It doesn't always work, but when it does, it can save an awful lot of head-scratching.
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