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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ian, post: 125589, member: 283&quot;]You&#039;re right. I was looking at Sear&#039;s Roman Coins and Their values and 2435 is `Fort.&#039; The way my mind was last night I must have taken it to be an abbreviation <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think there is any way of telling the mintage year from an antoninianus, excepting that the legend which ends&nbsp; PIUS FEL. AUG dates between 240 -44.</p><p><br /></p><p>On other coins of his the legends without AUG in them (obverse) are likely to be when Pupienus and Balbinus were still alive, that is 238 ad. Some&nbsp; coins have the tribunal year on them, which enables dating to within the year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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