These are all really nice. Just my guesses. 1. ??? 2. Antonius Pius Denarius 3. Greek bronze coin. Heracles obverse and Greek ship reverse. 4. Septimus Severus densius? 5. Roman Republic denarius 6. Roman provincial bronze. From Alexandria? 7. Augustus sestertius? 8. ??? 9 Gordianus Denarius 10. Commodus
This one is actually a Roman Republic quadrans with Hercules and prow on the reverse, probably Second Punic War era based on the style but I don't have my references to hand at the moment.
1. Severus Alexander (222-235) 2. The "Antoninus Pius" on this coin is the emperor better known to modern historians as Elagabalus (218- 222), not the Antoninus Pius who reigned from 138 to 161.
I believe they are all correctly identified now. What I wanted to say, however, is that these are all very nice coins for their type.
Not quite yet. http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/car-elag.html Read my page above and rethink #2. Another point of ID to consider: When a ruler ruled for only four years, his coins will not show annual dating devices like TRP VIIII. 6. Gallienus 7. Claudius I
Well, coprolite. I got hung up on the portrait (which does look more like Elagabalus' than the much more elongated face of Ant. Pius from his later coins) and completely ignored the evidence of the reverse, as well as the more nuanced analysis of portrait types that you show on that page. Thanks for the correction.
Thanks, everyone! I had tried doing it on my own prior to posting them here and only was able to pin down 3 of them, but at least I found some great resources.
I'm sure if you gave them to our boy JA (John Anthony => Honest John) He'd be able to unload them amazingly easily ... I'd PM him (or perhaps JA should PM you?) I'm just sayin' ... Roger that, over and out
