I was gifted free ancients but what exactly

A good friend of mine stopped by last weekend and dropped off about 15 various old coins. His parents passed away recently and he was cleaning out their house. I had shown him my ancient collection before and he thought of me when he found them. I tried nicely to pay for and tried to tell him to keep them. He wanted me to have them because he knew they would be appreciated. Now that’s a friend.

so I need some help identifying these 4, I will post the other coins later.
Thanks
Moe

 

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I can’t help you with identification but WOW! You’ve got a wonderful friend. Do something nice for him as soon as you can.

 

I sure will, most likely I will smoke a pork butt to give him with a bottle of bourbon. Two of his weaknesses.

 

That would be very nice.

 

Here is three more, they are all in 2 x 2’s.

 

The next three

 

Last one for the night.

 

I'm terrible at ancient attributions, and I all but guarantee that these are wrong. But I'll take a crack at the first 4 for the sake of entertainment!

1- Antoninus Pius Provincial
2- Byzantine... No idea
3- Maximinus II
4- Probus Provincial

 

Thanks for a starting point, I would like to get them properly labeled at some point and label them as from my buddies father. He will like that.

 

Here goes my take:
1) Antoninus Pius denarius Rev. TEMPLVM DIV AVG REST COS IIII RIC 290a BMC 939 (158-159 AD)

2) Byzantine - not my area of expertise

3) 3d century Alexandrian billon tetradrachm - Gordian III?

4) Probus - billon Alexandrian tetradrachm - 276 - 282 AD

5) Claudius Gothicus Antoninianus AD 268 -270 Rev. IVVENTVS AVG, 4th officina "delta" in exergue

6) Looks like Licinius II (AD 317-324 not 200 AD like the holder says). Obv. legend should read "D.N. VAL. LICIN.LICINIVS.NOB.C". Rev has Jupiter standing, captive at feet, IOVI CONSERVATORI Mint SMANT in exergue (Antioch)

7) too worn to tell but looks like a Constantius II FEL TEMP REPARATIO reverse (c AD 337-361)

8) looks like Postumus antoninianus not Victorinus but cannot confirm from the legend. Postumus dates to 259-268 AD and Victorinus from 268-270 so same time period.

9) Medieval Islamic - already identified

10) Philip II of Macedon (father of Alexander the Great) AE 18 c. 359-336 BC. Head on obverse is not Zeus but Apollo, horse rider on reverse

11) Divvs Antoninus Pius Sestertius (as indicated) minted under Marcus Aurelius

Hope that helps.

 

Wow! Tomorrow I will start start labeling them as I look them up. Thank you so much.

 

Coin #3 is TREBONIANUS GALLUS 251-253ad
It is a Billon Tetradrachm from Alexandria, Milne 3858

@romismatist list should lead you to the rest

 

Cool, thanks @tenbobbit . Alexandrian tetradrachms are unfortunately not a specialty of mine.

 

Thank you I will check it out.