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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 8662396, member: 72790&quot;]For $30 I would have bought it even though I have a couple of better grade double denarii of that emperor. I would have liked to have seen that same tray for others in this price range. Your coin is a good representation of Roman coinage of that period. Unfortunately for Phillip the bottom was about to drop out of the empire as a resurgent Persia and the Gothic barbarians were about to come close to ending the empire two centuries before they actually did that. Your double denarius (antoninianus ) was of pretty good silver , somewhat under 50% silver. In 15 years it would be issued as a coin with only a 3 or 4% silver as the Empire had to significant debase its coinage to meet defense needs. I must warn you that once bitten by the lure of ancient coinage, and its attendant study of Ancient Times, you will find that you will have acquired an interest that you can never exhaust, and will never want to exhaust. By the way, if you get a chance to photograph the other coins in that tray, post them and i am sure that others here would like to see those $30 coins. May Fortuna and Tyche guide you in your quest, your argosy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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