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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3305102, member: 56859&quot;]Due to the coin&#039;s condition and images it&#039;s hard to say but I agree with Frogster-- it looks like Commodus, which means it could also be Marcus Aurelius, his daddy-- they look quite alike in their younger portraits.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse has me puzzled.&nbsp; It&#039;s a male standing right, holding a staff/scepter with a snake twining around.&nbsp; Serpent-entwined staff generally = Asklepios (Aesculapius for the Roman equivalent) but the hand-on-hip slightly leaned forward pose is typical of Herakles but it looks like the figures is wearing a garment draped on his lower body, so that isn&#039;t typical for Herakles.&nbsp; The reverse pose also reminds me of some depictions of Apollo.&nbsp; I quick trip through ACsearch.info didn&#039;t yield anything similar.&nbsp; Looks like a job for ISEGRIM but I still don&#039;t have the hang of searching that database.&nbsp; ([USER=82322]@Ed Snible[/USER], can you help?)</p><p><br /></p><p>Asklepios seems like the best bet-- a Roman provincial issue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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