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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3183797, member: 19463&quot;]Enough shows of the OP coin to rule out all but Caracalla and Elagabalus.&nbsp; Caracalla year E was figured on his father&#039;s reign so he would have been much younger than shown here.&nbsp; All the Severans used the type.&nbsp; Mine is Septimius year 2.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]820841[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There is no such thing as the &#039;Roman year&#039;.&nbsp; Various rulers used different systems and you have to look up which was used by which ruler and city.&nbsp; Some rulers changed their systems in the middle of the reign; some counted from the reign of a predecessor; some cities like Alexandria had their own system that was not like the one used elsewhere.&nbsp; I do not know the exact dates for Elagabalus year five.&nbsp; If I recall correctly Severus Alexander as Caesar has coins from Alexandria dated to year 5 of Elagabalus but started over and has coins of his own year 5 when he was Augustus and looked older.&nbsp; You can decide how important it is to you to have a date translation into the current system (Gregorian, Julian, AH, others?).&nbsp; I prefer to learn what I can about the coin and what year 5 meant to them then but don&#039;t lose to much sleep on translations.&nbsp; How far do you go correcting for changes in the way leap years were handled?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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