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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gao, post: 1100220, member: 19409&quot;]I&#039;m not sure which of the coins you&#039;re referring to, but this is incorrect.&nbsp; A denarius is a silver coin that&#039;s roughly the size of a dime, so neither can be that.&nbsp; In addition, once you see enough Roman coins, you will be able to tell what emperor is on them by the face alone for coins up until the end of the third century or so.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen enough to tell you that the first coin is definitely Antoninus Pius, who reigned from 138-161, and the second is clearly from the Constantinian dynasty.&nbsp; The reverse of the second is one that stopped not long before Constantine died in 337 (they changed it to one standard between the soldiers rather than 2), so it&#039;s from sometime in the 330s AD.&nbsp; Regarding denomination, the Antoninus Pius coin appears to be a sestertius, and the Constantinian coin is a denomination whose name has not survived, but assuming that its diameter is between 17-21 mm, modern collectors would call it an &quot;AE3&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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