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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 4693726, member: 56859"]I agree about the other side: bust right. That's probably the obverse and the coin is likely from a Roman province. It's often hard to determine emperor ID based on portraits since provincial portraits sometimes look nothing like imperial coins and statues. That said, I think the portrait looks Severan... Septimius? Caracalla?</p><p><br /></p><p>This would be a good coin to run through <a href="http://isegrim.dasr.de/isegrim/isegrim_e.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://isegrim.dasr.de/isegrim/isegrim_e.html" rel="nofollow">ISEGRIM</a> but I don't seem to have the knack of knowing what search terms it will accept and where to put them, even using @EdSnible's <a href="http://isegrim.mybluemix.net/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://isegrim.mybluemix.net/" rel="nofollow">simplified interface</a>. Someday I hope to become more fluent with ISEGRIM because it's such a great resource for provincial coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1153875[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 4693726, member: 56859"]I agree about the other side: bust right. That's probably the obverse and the coin is likely from a Roman province. It's often hard to determine emperor ID based on portraits since provincial portraits sometimes look nothing like imperial coins and statues. That said, I think the portrait looks Severan... Septimius? Caracalla? This would be a good coin to run through [URL='http://isegrim.dasr.de/isegrim/isegrim_e.html']ISEGRIM[/URL] but I don't seem to have the knack of knowing what search terms it will accept and where to put them, even using @EdSnible's [URL='http://isegrim.mybluemix.net/']simplified interface[/URL]. Someday I hope to become more fluent with ISEGRIM because it's such a great resource for provincial coins. [ATTACH=full]1153875[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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