Identify these emperors, please!

I have some pretty worn coins but they’ve been hanging around and I was hoping someone might be able to recognize a bust. Sorry for the poor photos but I tried my best. I’ll post several pics, at different angles to help. I think one of them is Tiberius because of the hook nose (I think you’ll spot that one, but i could be wrong). The denarius im guessing is the co-emperor with Aurelius, I think his name was Lucius Verus. Or it could very well be Aurelius or his son without a beard. When I said worn down, a lot of it was from cleaning because many of them had bronze disease and I excised metal- i didnt know what else to do at time when i started collecting. Please feel free to post your worn down examples also, and perhaps others can help with those also. These coins deserve some love and attention too.

 

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The leftmost bronze in the first photo looks like Augustus.
The top right bronze in the same photo looks like Agrippa.
The last photo looks like a provincial bronze of Caracalla.

 

I'm guessing the bottom center is a Trajan As with Victory Reverse. Like this one: https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/lo...117__as__rome__r_victory/1396680/Default.aspx

 

I see in the first 6-coin photo...
Top row, left to right: Augustus, Hadrian, Augustus
Bottom row, left to right: Marcus Aurelius, Trajan, Domitian

 

You guys are awesome. Thanks! These clues will help me immensely narrow things down

 

Agree with the above attributions. There is just enough there to make educated guesses as to which emperor it is.

 

yes well said

 

ok, 3 more i forgot about. The brass one has a statue of a figure on a pillar; I remember seeing it before in a book but I forgot who it was. The obverse is inconclusive as you can see. The copper colored raw one is Vespasian I think, or could it be one of his sons? Finally, the one in the flip has some letters, but I’m stumped. Any help is appreciated

 

very good rendering. The reverse is spot on but the obverse heads look much different to me, especially the nose which resembles Tiberius I thought. Ive never seen a Trajan schnoz like that

 

That reverse is most common for Nero and Trajan. And that’s not Nero.

 

you’re right then. Thanks!

 

Only guessing (but pretty sure): in your original group photo, the top left is Augustus, and the bottom right is Domitian.

 

does anyone have an idea who the fourth pic from top is? It really stumps me. I’ll show another pic

 

Looks like Caracalla?

 

interesting. I’ll look into his coins then. Thanks!

 

The reverse depicts the god of healing, Asclepius, standing facing, head left, leaning on serpent-entwined caduceus (medical symbol) staff. The issuing city of this Roman provincial coin was probably Marcianopolis, in Moesia. The reverse legend is typically is MAPKIANOΠOΛEITΩN, but your legend is a little different. Maybe that city is wrong, or maybe it's a Greek variant. I don't know enough about Roman provincials to tell.

So a couple of emperors struck that reverse. Caracalla is one. Geta is another. Phillip II is one. Diadumenian is another. It looks to me like Caracalla. I haven't been able to find an exact match, but I pieced together a Marcianopolis obverse and reverse FROM TWO DIFFERENT COINS to show the style. The obverse comes from https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/ro...arkianopolis_very_rare_vf/784882/Default.aspx

The reverse is this coin: http://numismaclub.com/unt/181299-m...ovenanced_ae_pentassarion_with_asclepius.html

Start researching coins from Marcianopolis featuring Asclepius/Asklepios, with particular focus on the provincial issues of Caracalla.

 

This one has the chin of Maximinus:


And this one I think looks like either Augustus or could maybe be Tiberius?

 

My guess on this one is that it is some DIVUS AVGVSTUS restitution issue, but I can't make the legends line up.

https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/an...ck_under_titus_good_fine/1224984/Default.aspx