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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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Roman, yes. Aurelian post-reform antoninianus (...well, about 60% of one, anyway), supposed to be .048 silver (as represented by the XXI - 1 part silver to 20 parts copper).
In this condition, it's not really worth much if anything, and I don't have anywhere near enough expertise to identify it any further, but it's a neat find anyway.
How old was the building? Because now I'm wondering how it got there...
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It is a building in New Madrid, Mo on Main street it is one of the last surviving buildings from before the big earthquake took the majority of town into the Mississippi River
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United States
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The man's Great grandfather and great grandmother met in the building before the earthquake after coming from overseas. I am unsure of what country they were from.
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The coin is one of the variants of RIC 244, with the reverse legend CONCORDIA MILITVM (Agreement of the Army), showing two figures, the emperor and Concordia, shaking hands. When intact, your coin would have looked very much like this one. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
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...wait, New Madrid? I must have missed that you were from the USA.
And earthquake as in the 1812 earthquake? Because I don't know of any others in that area.
I assumed that you were in Europe, and that there was a (very small) chance that the building was old enough for the coin to have ended up there back when it still circulated (i.e. 3rd century AD or so). In the USA, this is of course not an option.
In the USA, I suppose "someone brought the coin from Europe" is an option, but it pretty much had to be a deliberate action.
Still not sure how exactly it would have happened, though; not a lot of people collected coins 200+ years ago. Did it look like the coin had been there since before 1812?
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I found out this morning that the man's great grandparents were into currency and that had passed the whole collection down through the years anyway his family had some extremely old coins that were sold back in the early late 1800'sand early 1900's to help survive the great depression
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I have also found out that it was from MAXIMIANUS Romanian coin. The guy said to look and you can read "concor" on the tails side of the coin
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Hey I wish I could find something like that. Sure beats finding one of those "lucky" pennies. january1may Thank you for this, I did not know that. Quote:
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