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Message:: [QUOTE="Mikey Zee, post: 2144633, member: 72818"]I decided to post this 'specimen' here instead of the current Fouree thread since it is in all probability a rather environmentally damaged debased Silver denarius...and please excuse the photos, they are the best I can do.. The remaining legible inscription reads..."NINUS PIUS..." and the reverse seems to depict 'Liberalitas, holding a tablet (tessara) and cornucopiae...I assume the portrait is of Antoninus Pius---and it seems to resemble him somewhat---but Caracalla and Elagabalus appear to have used those 'Titles/names' as well. The pitting and damage reveal to the eye a very dark and non-silver center, suggesting a debased coin, but at this early stage (i.e. Antoninus Pius??). Of course, it could be a debased coin of at least that time-frame as Nero seems to have started that quite successfully decades earlier (LOL)......or a fouree---What do you think???? ([ATTACH=full]410733[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]410734[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]410735[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]410736[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]410737[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]410740[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]410741[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]