My first Ancient

..thanks...its been a long strange tripbut kool...for the most part

 

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Holy S$@#. Aug. 29 is my wives also . That should be easy to remember. What year ?

 

‘93: (“I’m too young to be a father!”)

 

I know right .

 

Here is one that is very similar to yours but mine has the mark of the sixth officina (workshop) at the Rome mint, VI, in the right field. You may read about these officina marks in this thread.

Gallienus, AD 253-268.
Roman billon antoninianus, 3.46 g, 21.4 mm, 6 h.
Rome, AD 261-262.
Obv: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust, right.
Rev: AEQVITAS AVG, Aequitas, draped, standing left, holding scales in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand; VI in right field.
Refs: RIC 159 var.; Göbl 500q1; RCV 10167; Hunter 8.

 

Oh yeah. Very similar . What's the symbol below roman numerals ? My number is hard to make out .

 

That's the G in AVG.

I don't think yours has an officina number, which is a known variety of the coin.

 

Below the 5 ?

 

That's the G in AVG, which is short for AVGVSTI. The reverse legend goes clockwise around the rim and reads AEQVITAS AVG. "Aequitas augusti" means "the fairness of the emperor."

 

Wow that's cool . Who was the Emperor at that time ?

 

...I still need the version from Europe '72. If you've got better ones, I'm needing those, too.
...'Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me;
Other times I can barely see....'

 

I believe the reverse is AEQVIT AVG without the -as in aequit

 

The year 93 would be Domitian, the last of the 'Twelve Caesars.' An arbitrary number, since they're reducible to the one primary source from Seutonius. But, writing around the time of Hadrian (117-138), he ended it there. Maybe, er, partly from political motivation.

 

A.D 92 ?

 

The emperor Gallienus, who appears on the obverse of the coin.

Not on my coin; on the OP coin, maybe.

 

I thank all of you who made this possible. I'm learning a lot .

 

Oh haha, I meant on the OP coin.

 

Yeah, that's what I meant. Now it's looking like you were attempting to continue an earlier part of the thread, going back to when I was snoring in place. Sorry.

 

...Despite some of our best efforts (Teacher, I Raise My Hand...)!

 

lol