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Help Identifying Two (Potentially) Common Silver Denarius

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 Posted 05/27/2021  5:41 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add CollectingGuinea to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hello everyone. Any information these two coins, and perhaps a breakdown of how you acquired your knowledge, would be greatly appreciated!

This is my first pair of roman coins and I want to learn how to identify them by myself.

Thank you in advance!


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 Posted 05/27/2021  6:01 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Palouche to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
.....But sorry the photos are awful!!
The female one is Faustina I....Something like this..
Ob....DIVA FAVSTINA
Rev...CONSCRATIO......Ceres
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Male looks like Commodus..
COMM ANT P FEL AVG BRIT?......

Maybe AVG PM TRPXII IMPV? on the reverse?.......
Basically better photos would make the ID easy.
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here's a site for starters---acsearch.info---
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First thing is to familiarize yourself with the emperors and empresses on the coins by looking at lots of images of coins.
For example, you'll learn that beards don't appear on the denarius until Antonin Pius. Beards then disappeared after Caracalla, only to reappear sporadically from the Crisis of the Third Century rulers onward.
Once you know the portrait you can figure out the emperor. Then search Wildwinds.com on that emperor.
From that point on it's all about matching the letters around the coins.

Start looking at coins - at either Wildwinds or VCoins.
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