Help my identify who this is

Any help would be amazing. Thanks!

 

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Obverse shows a Roman Emperor, radiate and heading right. Maybe Gallienus, but I'm not sure. Condition is very poor, unfortunately.

 

It's an antoninianus of Gallienus, Roman Emperor between 253-268. Not sure about the reverse deity/personification, someone else I'm sure will chime in.

 

Thank you so much for your help! Yea I’m not sure if it’s in bad condition, or if I am not done “cleaning” it. I have never restored ancient coins before so it might not be done yet I don’t really know

 

Uhhh.... restoring ancient coins? Didnt know that was a thing

 

That is as good as it will get most likely.

John

 

Restoring/cleaning is basically interchangeable here. All the ancients you see here have been cleaned to some degree. Most of the methods would give the guys over on the US coin board an aneurysm if they knew what happened to our coins between the ground and the auction house.

 

Well why don't you tell me so I can get an aneurysm?

 

Antoninianus of Gallienus. Reverse type? Perhaps Annona or Ceres standing left, holding grain ears and torch. Perhaps Providentia standing left, holding wand and cornucopiae.

 

Agree.

 

This is a method I've used to successfully clean silver coins. There are quite a few methods of physical and chemical cleaning discussed on that website. I'm far from an expert on cleaning but I do know a handful of dealers and one person whose full time job is cleaning ancients and I've been told many times there's no one-size-fits-all method for cleaning but instead several different individual methods that can be used depending on the coin and what sort of encrustations it has.

 

Awesome! It’s my first one I have ever done in my life. I only used a toothbrush and a toothpick. I’ve got two other coins I’m working on but they are much harder

 

Perhaps this one:

 

Could be PROVI AVG:


RIC 580; Cohen 854; Gobl 1461

 

My guess is Annona as well. But it’s just a guess.

 

Looking at this one in my own collection, it could be VBERITAS AVG, particularly because there is a curved letter in the right field, which may be an epsilon:


Gallienus, AD 253-268.
Roman billon antoninianus, 2.28 g, 20.8 mm, 12 h.
Rome, AD 265-267.
Obv: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right.
Rev: VBERITAS AVG, Uberitas standing left holding marsupium in right hand and cornucopiae in left, Є in right field.
Refs: RIC 287 var; Göbl 583a; Cohen 1008; RCV 10368.

 

Changed my mind. I vote for Bing’s FORTUNA RED as the mystery coin reverse. But that means the obverse could be Claudius II Gothicus...

 

My vote is Gallienus, but Claudius II is a possibility.

 

Yeah, fortunately they don't often make the trip here. (I'm getting a little light headed right now..)