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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Billy Kingsley, post: 713731, member: 19456&quot;]Thanks for the comments! </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ardatirion, you really carry a list of emporers in your wallet? That is....awesome! Gee, all I carry is a list of modern US coins I am looking for lol.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Dougsmit, are you Doug Smith from the website you linked? I love that site! Stainless gave me a link to it a while ago and I ended up spending about 4 hours on there reading, and I feel I still only scratched the surface! I have not had too much time lately so I have not been able to read more yet but I plan to soon, from September to the end of October is my busiest time of the year. </p><p>I know what you mean about the reverse picture. It&#039;s nasty. I need to reshoot another one. I am still learning how to take coin pictures and still experimenting! It doesn&#039;t help that there is a shadow across it...likely from the hand strap on my camera!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>How do you date the Roman coins? I know that XX means 20 but how do you determine 20 of what? (I would guess his rule, of cource the XX is not the only part of the date. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>One of the things I wish to find out is about dates/timekeeping in the past. I know the system currently in use came much later; after the fall of the Roman Empire and one of the things I wonder is how time was kept before that. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here is the info that came with it...since I am still new and basically clueless I have to trust it...the comments I got made me happy because I am flying blind basically...(My thoughts in parenthesis)</p><p>Antoninus Pius</p><p>AR denarius 3.35g (The same size as a US dime)</p><p>117-138 AD (How does that reconcile with the date Dougsmit posted?)</p><p>Emporor Head right</p><p>Annona stg r.. foot on prow</p><p>RIC 260</p><p>Reverse flan flaw (I am much more accpeting of defects on ancient coins)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks again![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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