I would be grateful if you may help me with recognizing the coin from attached files (if you can estimate the value it would be great ... but condition is poor as you see on the photo) Thank you in advance Mike.
Greetings and Welcome, Your coin is in great shape (fine+) considering it's an imperial roman issue over 1700 yrs old. I'd venture to say your man on the coin could be Septimious Severous (sp) or Antoninus Pius. Denomination, a sestertius? Again Welcome Bone
Miko007, Could you please measure the diameter in millimeters and post that? That will give us more information to go from to figure out the denomination.
I browsed the thumbnail pages of both of those emperors and couldn't find any featuring just the "SC" on the reverse.Still looking though.
I can't tell you much yet. I'm having a hard time making out the obverse. On the reverse however, I can tell you that SC means "Senatus Consulto" which basically means "By decree of the senate" or "with the Senate's approval"...meaning that the Roman Senate approved the issue of this coin. Also, the coin appears to be made of either bronze or brass.
I'm starting to think bonedigger was right about it being a coin of Antonius Pius (138-161 AD).I found several examples of his with similar designs,SC on the reverse with wreath and design above.In addition,it seems to be from one of the Provincial mints,possibly Antioch and the inscription is in Greek which is why some of the letters are difficult to identify.The most noticable is at about 9 O'clock and looks sort of like a flying "Y".This would be the Greek letter gamma and usually appears like this on coins.The Romans also had the letter Y in their alphabet but it was almost never used. Anyway,a lot of Antonius' coins had Greek legends. Just a guess but there isn't a lot to go on from your photo.
