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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3184239, member: 19463&quot;]I know as little (or less?) today as I did when that quote was new.&nbsp; I do not know of what I consider &#039;Limes&#039; (<i>lee-mace</i>) denarii this early and see the possibility that the coin is just a regular issue or contemporary counterfeit that has suffered greatly while buried and recovered.&nbsp; I consider the Limes of the normal period (mostly Severan) to be quite a mystery. I question the use of the term as I understand it for this coin.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know enough to be interested in this item at anything approaching the price it will bring.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Good questions every one.&nbsp; I know there are many people who believe they know the answers with certainty but I have not been convinced that the matter is settled. Where do we stop calling a coin fourree missing its silver and start calling them Limes?&nbsp;&nbsp; This is not the only thing about ancient coins I do not know but it is high on the list of things I would like to see studied by those interested parties capable of the task.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What is below?&nbsp; I see a struck copper coin with minimal retained silver (patch behind head?)&nbsp; using a bare headed portrait that looks like Septimius Severus, a legend for Clodius Albinus and a reverse of Commodus.&nbsp; If I required myself to understand the coins in my collection, I would hate this one.&nbsp; Limes?&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]821087[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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