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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1249568, member: 19463&quot;]A hint:&nbsp; When stumped trying to figure out the obverse of a coin, try starting with the reverse.&nbsp; In this case the small flan and barbarous look tells us that the coin may be a Barbarous Radiate.&nbsp; 95% of the Barbarous Radiates are in the name of a very few rulers including one that was Consecrated and had posthumous coins issued both officially and by the makers of the barbarous copies.&nbsp; Therefore a consecration reverse on a barbarous is 99.9% certainly Claudius II.&nbsp; The trick works on many common coins.&nbsp; There may be 200+ persons on the obverse of Roman coins but perhaps only 2% of them issued coins with certain reverses.&nbsp; That will narrow down a search.&nbsp; All three of your top row coins are easily narrowed down in this way to just a couple rulers so they could be identified without reading the obverse legends (fortunately very clear on your nice specimens).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Before someone calls me on the error:&nbsp; Yes there are very rare eagle reverse consecration coins of Victorinus but the chance of finding one approaches zero and the chance of finding a barbarous copy of one is small enough that we can rule out the possibility unless you can read the obverse legend clearly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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