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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2409435, member: 19463&quot;]I don&#039;t know how far you want to go on ID but the SS Provincial is a one assarion of Nicopolis ad Istrum, Moesia Inferior with a reverse showing Hermes.&nbsp; There are hundreds of varieties of these little bronzes and a similar array of coins four times this size.&nbsp; I believe many of them show statues of the gods that were in the city since some of them are definitely in poses matching surviving large marbles and bronzes.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicopolis_ad_Istrum" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicopolis_ad_Istrum" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicopolis_ad_Istrum</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin is identifiable by the obverse portrait (definitely Septimius Severus) and a strong legend on the reverse left naming the city.&nbsp; Today we call the city by the Latin name &#039;ad Istrum&#039; meaning &#039;on the Ister river&#039;.&nbsp; The missing part of your reverse legend said this in Greek (probably abbreviated).&nbsp; A little research will turn up slightly more well preserved examples online so you can get the whole picture.</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2710460" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2710460" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2710460</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This research could done with each of your coins and is part of the hobby as many of us practice it.&nbsp; I agree with YOC that the last one is probably what we call Latin Rulers which are always crude if not just plain ugly but yours could be another scyphate issue just in horrid condition.&nbsp; I hate to say any coin is not worth the effort to research but you will achieve more success if you do the others first.&nbsp; Getting help here would be more likely if your photos were a bit better.&nbsp; We do not need to see your wood desk but larger images of the coins (both sides) would help.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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