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<p>[QUOTE="Thomas c, post: 5258416, member: 106346"]Hello,</p><p><br /></p><p>While browsing my unidentified coin basket, I found a coin with ''Caesar" written from up downwards... I have not heard of these imperial coins so i was very interested... on the reverse it shows some sort of wreath. The coin is badly damaged with scratches everywhere (someone must of really hated it...). Now I'm trying to figure out whether it is a regular Augustus (e.g. <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.75A" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.75A" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.75A</a>) or perhaps a later civil war coin (e.g. <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).cw.105" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).cw.105" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).cw.105</a> )</p><p><br /></p><p>I also suspect this is a fouree and not silver -- the sound doesn't seem right and the weight is 1.7g.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any ideas welcome!</p><p><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/F6HaqEt_k8JL4MzsV9U51m5VdMyLQ1zAnxG__9nG7NUWbDyc-3nQAbkJyP0cta7YpB5U7BEh0BXBDzj9OAbZ38prqMSwFEU0DJNaTel9RZkGkBrdR1jlc3kcryT5hEl-7eXcKz74bEoPvqVa67qLlSUBCNNYfhBRufI88Ehrtz5wkCZe_D0dbPFGCDuyHlYadIeOXoxb9xppRoEXHmHwMEMoYa27ALBX4QKjWiKPNqNzyWV2MPeacE_4-VxHr1ZaS1los0J5mfN3sIGYpInuixOCthhOjSfmuHlTc00Ii_JHovkPoSdnt12xGqzu0X-B6qi_0wV9q9vnYxmhqI_14n17CLCYZj9gTuB_OGwp9nwJFsv4JUz_o-8qn2Qj3jGh_5VWIi9UU-cUFntLrin1MY6VIaywjnbMaYDI9N_5QoaaVg71Bpc4EWMHSYu9fZMjtLfgSX3SaOXVg5vZORho91rv0SHqqozbG0JIP_ypQiQEKIXoGR8Iv81JEVWwru8gvpyNxQ8TT1dbFme33sWPSY4r5X0VpJK3kIe2KKVa36JAnIOBjigyWS6BMsVArn5HUzAGMcVIsAGT8qWBSOTHGaz266eQ4wcVib9yI-7YWiZZF3tzcY5p725mVs0PJCA8-KLFB5VSQVn9ePpD-iHPeL_L8l5hrO5pFY_xGQnnYrWiG6woeVLmFjrrvj6nwkA=w302-h536-no?authuser=0" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/6pQX4Traq_uXOEDIPVpyQ9jHD5C_C0CHTsVx68hrdSmY3dlSK0Ka92X9ccaeDCgLeMlW_tyD2SGq417B92HQpyMVlYiT9kI47DcLMUnzPGh9tiWeA16jRhL_03ob2uvHYWAS3iWVM8rOlr6UI56OZJFEvrCeE0bhlnb3VvegYs8-KsdCVWfptMpGlvv_VMztvHZBlZFkAj3rxArxDhcYWkaF0YM7hZq4xaga-JV_ypY8rhubzYVc30ePzPhxqYuArDSQW_RlVtQpAB2FyvHQ1Wk7QYjz5rECNrfK04VZ0DvLuGna7HgP1-8jHMIJhDrtkDegzc2xweYiS-MeT_mbsQpB3Gf2ZrEao5EU6UA0L8kwxNSPZDHYtRfLC8sAJulZN5m-yXIYEZBkDmzyo2EyEyLwdSjA7ZJ7WxOGzbX4ZD30S36N-GcFF0oy0PafgUl9JiWG2rGne88azF3tM2J6OpbqXTfkTpSWUI0Cm8g-lo3h1350Ie2GS6FlWs4xrwZ9OCr6mAMAUFS1KirnxA4fDQtycJS2N9jd3akIEtOCRuqkIzsEWIa19D8EbFmv6UnExMmYBd6E5B32G_CxPct_LV2xUFCthXkWq9v6N5agKoGeDwHFUgqvqFywEWhHJcoDcdiZMPQyOC93mDY_uf9LDDn279913WzcCzIZ3JKFS9QIADkM09NserGJpG3TYUk=w639-h536-no?authuser=0" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Thomas.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Thomas c, post: 5258416, member: 106346"]Hello, While browsing my unidentified coin basket, I found a coin with ''Caesar" written from up downwards... I have not heard of these imperial coins so i was very interested... on the reverse it shows some sort of wreath. The coin is badly damaged with scratches everywhere (someone must of really hated it...). Now I'm trying to figure out whether it is a regular Augustus (e.g. [URL]http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.75A[/URL]) or perhaps a later civil war coin (e.g. [URL]http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).cw.105[/URL] ) I also suspect this is a fouree and not silver -- the sound doesn't seem right and the weight is 1.7g. Any ideas welcome! [IMG]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/F6HaqEt_k8JL4MzsV9U51m5VdMyLQ1zAnxG__9nG7NUWbDyc-3nQAbkJyP0cta7YpB5U7BEh0BXBDzj9OAbZ38prqMSwFEU0DJNaTel9RZkGkBrdR1jlc3kcryT5hEl-7eXcKz74bEoPvqVa67qLlSUBCNNYfhBRufI88Ehrtz5wkCZe_D0dbPFGCDuyHlYadIeOXoxb9xppRoEXHmHwMEMoYa27ALBX4QKjWiKPNqNzyWV2MPeacE_4-VxHr1ZaS1los0J5mfN3sIGYpInuixOCthhOjSfmuHlTc00Ii_JHovkPoSdnt12xGqzu0X-B6qi_0wV9q9vnYxmhqI_14n17CLCYZj9gTuB_OGwp9nwJFsv4JUz_o-8qn2Qj3jGh_5VWIi9UU-cUFntLrin1MY6VIaywjnbMaYDI9N_5QoaaVg71Bpc4EWMHSYu9fZMjtLfgSX3SaOXVg5vZORho91rv0SHqqozbG0JIP_ypQiQEKIXoGR8Iv81JEVWwru8gvpyNxQ8TT1dbFme33sWPSY4r5X0VpJK3kIe2KKVa36JAnIOBjigyWS6BMsVArn5HUzAGMcVIsAGT8qWBSOTHGaz266eQ4wcVib9yI-7YWiZZF3tzcY5p725mVs0PJCA8-KLFB5VSQVn9ePpD-iHPeL_L8l5hrO5pFY_xGQnnYrWiG6woeVLmFjrrvj6nwkA=w302-h536-no?authuser=0[/IMG][IMG]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/6pQX4Traq_uXOEDIPVpyQ9jHD5C_C0CHTsVx68hrdSmY3dlSK0Ka92X9ccaeDCgLeMlW_tyD2SGq417B92HQpyMVlYiT9kI47DcLMUnzPGh9tiWeA16jRhL_03ob2uvHYWAS3iWVM8rOlr6UI56OZJFEvrCeE0bhlnb3VvegYs8-KsdCVWfptMpGlvv_VMztvHZBlZFkAj3rxArxDhcYWkaF0YM7hZq4xaga-JV_ypY8rhubzYVc30ePzPhxqYuArDSQW_RlVtQpAB2FyvHQ1Wk7QYjz5rECNrfK04VZ0DvLuGna7HgP1-8jHMIJhDrtkDegzc2xweYiS-MeT_mbsQpB3Gf2ZrEao5EU6UA0L8kwxNSPZDHYtRfLC8sAJulZN5m-yXIYEZBkDmzyo2EyEyLwdSjA7ZJ7WxOGzbX4ZD30S36N-GcFF0oy0PafgUl9JiWG2rGne88azF3tM2J6OpbqXTfkTpSWUI0Cm8g-lo3h1350Ie2GS6FlWs4xrwZ9OCr6mAMAUFS1KirnxA4fDQtycJS2N9jd3akIEtOCRuqkIzsEWIa19D8EbFmv6UnExMmYBd6E5B32G_CxPct_LV2xUFCthXkWq9v6N5agKoGeDwHFUgqvqFywEWhHJcoDcdiZMPQyOC93mDY_uf9LDDn279913WzcCzIZ3JKFS9QIADkM09NserGJpG3TYUk=w639-h536-no?authuser=0[/IMG] Thanks, Thomas.[/QUOTE]
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