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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;furryfrog02, post: 3245604, member: 41219&quot;]We tried another one of the 2 left this afternoon. It was much harder and I would say that we are currently a little north of 50% on being correct.</p><p><br /></p><p>We could tell off that bat that it is supposed to be, or rather look like, a denarius. The silver plating has come off quite a bit of the coin revealing the base metal underneath. This led us to look at fourees. </p><p>We read up on fourees on [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] &#039;s page <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fourree.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fourree.html" rel="nofollow">here</a></p><p>as well as the fouree page on Forvm <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=fouree" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=fouree" rel="nofollow">here</a></p><p><br /></p><p>On the obverse we can make out &quot;DIVO&quot; positively and then what looks like &quot;SE&quot; following that.&nbsp; On the reverse, a few letters that seem to be from &quot;CONSECRATIO&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>We weren&#039;t able to nail down an exact example but did find one that looks to be a match possibly for the design it intended to copy here: <a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sear5/s7051.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sear5/s7051.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sear5/s7051.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Our &quot;educated&quot; guess is that it is an ancient copy of:</p><p>Divus Septimius Severus Denarius. 211 AD. </p><p>DIVO SEVERO PIVO, bare head right </p><p>CONSECRATIO, eagle standing facing on globe, head left, wings spread</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]850644[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>How did we do?&nbsp; Are we in the ballpark? Is there any way to further nail down where/when this particular coin was minted?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As always, thanks for looking![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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