I Need Help In Identifying These Coins L Received Several Years Ago

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leucadialady New Member United States 3 Posts	Posted 05/05/2022 02:17 am Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16816 Posts	Posted 05/05/2022 03:49 am Just for clarity: I assume pictures number 1 and 4 belong together, then pictures 2 and 3. The first coin (pictures 1 and 4) is an antoninianus from the late 200s AD. I cant determine exactly which emperor, or the reverse type. The second coin (pictures 2 and 3) is ahrder to identify; fromthe shape, my guess would be Roman Provincial, from Palestine or Syria. The third coin (pictures 5 and 6) is much easier; it's a brass sestertius (or perhaps a smaller denomination) from Roman emperor Antoninus Pius. I was going to ask if it might be made of gold, but then I saw the "SC" on the reverse, which with the yellow colour means that it must be made of brass, wich in trn means it's most likely a sestertius. I believe the figure on the reverse is Salus, Roman goddess of health, feeding a serpent at an altar and holding a ship's rudder - a combination that roughly translates to "we wish the emperor good health in his travels". It is unfortunate that this coin has been turned into jewellery, apparently in relatively modern times, by the soldering-on of a loop. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 05/05/2022 04:27 am Report this Post to the Staff
JohnConduitt Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 725 Posts	Posted 05/05/2022 05:30 am 4 is a Concordia reverse. The emperor (image 1) might be Aurelian, like this http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.5.aur.199 The alternatives are Probus, Dicoletian/Maximian, Tacitus and Florian, but I don't think it's one of them. The other one looks like it might be VIRTVS AVGVSTI or something like that (with image 3 the other way up). It might be Constantine II (image 2) but I can't see any legends. Edited by JohnConduitt 05/05/2022 06:05 am Report this Post to the Staff
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leucadialady New Member United States 3 Posts	Posted 05/05/2022 4:13 pm How do I find the value of the coins? Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16816 Posts	Posted 05/05/2022 7:58 pm Unfortunately, none of them are particularly valuable. Ancients dealers generally sell "unidentified Roman coins" for $5 to $10 each, and I'd have to classify the top two as "unidentified" since we haven't been able to fully identify them. And coin collectors won't really want that last one as it's considered "damaged" due to the attached loop, so it too is likely to be just a $5 to $10 coin. An antique jewellery store might pay more for that last one, as it is (apparently ) a genuine ancient coin, but I don't really know. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
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