Help with Identification Vase and altar Greek

I am helping a friend try and attribute these two coins, if real I would like to purchase them.
First is a from Ancient Greece says on the flip 400 to 200 BC,
It looks bronze and weigh 1 g and is 10 mm in diameter.
It looks to have a vase on one side and an Altar on the other.

The next I really don't have a clue might be an AlexandXX Pius. And I think it says Provincial (rev)
It weighs 20.8 G
Sorry I missed the weight had to get to an appointment.
It was a little bigger than a us quarter in diameter. I could not find a casting seam on the edge. But, something feels a little off on this one, hopefully I am wrong.
Thanks in advance, and hopefully they can become part of my collection if real.

 

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The second is from Severus Alexander, and looks like a Rome minted As.

I am sure the Roman gurus will be along soon to give you the RIC number.

I am eating take out Chinese food and sharing with my dogs so I am a bit pre-occupied.

 

Severus Alexander AE As, Providentia reverse
Severus Alexander (222-235 AD). AE As (25-27 mm, 13.59 g), Rome, 232.
Obv. IM ALEXANDER PIVS AVG, Laureate bust right, slight drapery.
Rev. PROVIDENTIA AVG / S-C, Providentia standing left, holding grain ears over modius filled with grain ears and cornucopia.
RIC IV 644; BMCRE 891 note.

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4052691

Chomp Chomp acsearch chomp chomp

 

First one is trickier, maybe this from Chios or related:

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1371730

 

MMM Chinese sounds good!

 

Too dark for me to help...but I'm not sure how much help I could be...

 

Yeah, try to get some light on that top pic.
To many it could be's

 

The Severus Alexander is not an as, rather a sestertius.

 

Close, but now that the OP posted a weight it's a sestertius.

RIC 642, IMP ALEXANDER PIVS AVG, laureate bust right with draped far shoulder / PROVIDENTIA AVG S C, Providentia or Annona standing left by modius, holding grain ears and cornucopiae. Cohen 503

Here's mine:

 

Perhaps Thrace, Sestos?

https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=72257
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4470913
https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=62277

Let's imagine a meeting of the ancient council of Sestos as they consider the motion to use the Ithyphallic herm as the obverse of the city's coinage...

Even if this is not the coin I cannot resist posting it as a possibility.

 

I agree with Ed on the second one, looks like Thrace Sestos.

 

I realized that this sestertius of Severus Alexander had brought up some questions for me a while back. Specifically relating to the imagry of Annona but the legend of Providentia, here is the thread with more on the topic:

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/qu...f-annona-and-providentia.281344/#post-2471227

 

Thank you, I was wondering why the SC was different.

Do you mind me asking what I should pay for one of these?
or approximate value?

 

I did take two other photos through the flip,
and after seeing EDs thoughts I decided to flip the one side 180 degrees. Sorry I don't have the coins in front of me, otherwise you would have detailed photos to work with.

 

Definitely right just upside herm Rx in ops first post

 

Wow, the Thrace Sestos reminds me of what I saw in hand.
Are these made of bronze? I say this because the coin had a very bright yellow that I don't expect on a coin of this age?

 

Congratulations, you have won a free egg roll. I will drop it in the mail tomorrow.

 

Funny, My son and I had to get some take out. Mongolian beef and kung Poa!

 

The one you posted looks a little rough, and the legends are incomplete. I would also want to see the surface condition, i.e. has the patina been stripped. So with all those caveats, I would probably pay around $50 for it. Here is a link to a CNG search, these are all higher grade than the coin you posted, but give you a sense of where the market is:

https://www.cngcoins.com/Search.asp...R_TYPE_ID_3=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1

 

I ended up buying the Thrace Sestos coin. I still can't figure out exactly what reference to use. The deposits on the coin are hiding some details. Not to mention how far off flan it is.
Weighs 1 gram and is 9.52 mm in diameter. or .95 cm