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ID Help - Unknown Roman Denarius

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I've been sitting on this one for a while, still haven't been able to identify it. Reverse is still fairly legible so I thought I could get an easy match. Looks to have Pietas standing left with patera, legend being P---A... fits that too, but I haven't come across anything close. Any help here?

16mm
1.47g

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 Posted 04/15/2024  09:17 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spence to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
@tan, while I'm a bit out of my element on these, I agree that Pietas with a paterna seems like a pretty good guess for the reverse. On the obverse, it looks to me like the bust is bare-headed. If so, then it seems like you've got one couple possibility for denarii, although the location of the letter on the rev doesn't match well:

Geta:
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4567570


Hopefully, someone else who knows more can weigh in with a more accurate attribution.
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Thanks Spence!

Geta/Pietas does seem to be close. I just haven't seen one without the altar to the left like mine.
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So far the only two denarii with Pietas standing, holding patera, without altar I have seen have been imitations:

Caracalla: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3327235
Antoninus Pius: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=848372
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