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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RaceBannon, post: 1647399, member: 25357&quot;]I&#039;m still a noob when it comes to ancients.&nbsp; But I&#039;m having a lot of fun with this newly found passion.&nbsp; I posted a thread a couple of weeks back soliciting advice and got some great feedback.&nbsp; Thanks to all CoinTalkers who responded.&nbsp; I&#039;ve done some reading based on that advice, have studied some of the books and read lots of the on line sources.</p><p>Am working hard at being able to attribute.</p><p><br /></p><p>So today I went down to my LCS to start my adventure in searching for ancients.&nbsp; I&#039;ve got a good relationship with the owner, have bought lots of US Coins and bullion from him over the years.&nbsp; The owner&#039;s out, and his assistant told me she couldn&#039;t sell me any ancients as she doesn&#039;t know anything about them and didn&#039;t have the pricing information.&nbsp; I asked if I could see their ancient box anyways, as this is the kind of stuff that makes for good treasure hunting stories.&nbsp; She searches around the shop for a bit and finally pulls out this old, dusty red box stuffed with flips, envelopes and raw coins.&nbsp; It was kind of like digging through an old box at a garage sale.&nbsp; Most of the contents were made up of an unorganized jumble of ancient Chinese, Byzantine, Medieval, with a handful of Greek and Roman coins thrown in for good measure.&nbsp; Many of the coins were stored in thrice folded air mail envelopes dated 1958.&nbsp; So it was really a bit of a scavenger hunt.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the Roman coinage was either heavliy corroded, or not yet cleaned, pretty beat up stuff. Since I&#039;m so new, I asked her if I could leave a desposit on two coins that I found.&nbsp; I told her I&#039;d try and do the attribution and come up with a fair market value, and bring them back attributed and/or possibly buy them if they checked out as authentic.&nbsp; My big concern is that these could be fakes.&nbsp; I know that there are a lot of fake Roman coins floating around out there.&nbsp; &nbsp; So here they are:</p><p><br /></p><p>Please provide any corrections to my attempted attribution, and let me know if you think these might be fakes.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Antonianus Pious 142-144 AD</p><p>Silver Denarius, 2.56g/18mm</p><p>TRPD COS III</p><p>OBV Laureate Bust Facing Right</p><p>REV Annona, Facing Left holding corn ears[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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