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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor_Clark, post: 26312354, member: 10613&quot;]I live in Nashville, TN; so I found this interesting. From an 1887 article--</p><p><br /></p><p>American Journal of Numismatics, and Bulletin of the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society, Vol. 22, No. 1 (JULY, 1887), p. 18 (1 page)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43584817?seq=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43584817?seq=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.jstor.org/stable/43584817?seq=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A ROMAN COIN FOUND IN TENNESSEE.</p><p><br /></p><p>It has long been a desideratum with the learned to know by whom the numerous</p><p>old fortifications, etc., in the Western country were erected. It is now in our power</p><p>to add one fact that may serve to direct inquiries a little further. A short time since</p><p>a cellar was dug in the town of Fayetteville, on Elk River, in that State [Tennessee],</p><p>not far from the lines of one of those ancient fortifications so common in the Western</p><p>States, and in the dirt was found, corroded with a kind of rust, a small piece of metal,</p><p>which being disrobed of its covering was ascertained to be a Roman silver coin, issued</p><p>about 150 years before Christ, and in a good state of preservation. It is in the posses-</p><p>sion of a merchant in Nashville, and has been seen by hundreds, many of whom are</p><p>antiquarians, and they are all satisfied it is a genuine coin, and one gentleman who</p><p>was lately in Italy, and saw the busts of the persons presented on the coin, declares</p><p>the heads very good likenesses. On one side, around the edge, these letters are seen :</p><p>ANTONiNvs AVG pivs pp trp cos. in. On the other side, avrelis caesar avg p hi</p><p>Cos, which is constructed thus : Antoninus Augustus Pius, princp. pontifex tertio constile,</p><p>Aurelius Caesar, Augustus pontifex tertio constile. The marks, letters, etc., exactly</p><p>agree in every particular with the probable state of the arts and history of the times ;</p><p>but how the coin was brought to Tennessee we leave others to ascertain. Since the</p><p>subject of the Roman coin has occupied public attention, we have learned many facts</p><p>interesting to the antiquarian. [An extract from &quot;The Port Folio,&quot; Vol. VI (July-</p><p>December, 1818), page 268.]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>the original article was published in 1818</p><p><br /></p><p>The Port folio 4th ser. v.6 (July-Dec. 1818)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101064079328&amp;seq=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101064079328&amp;seq=1" rel="nofollow">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101064079328&amp;seq=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1679907[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1679908[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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