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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Pirate, post: 2748939, member: 87662&quot;]Thanks for your helpful responses. I found that there appear to have been a few earlier and later emperors coins with a similar reverse. An auction house described one as &quot;Rare and seldom encountered reverse type&quot;. I think I read somewhere that early on there were more fourrees in circulation than solid coins due to corruption in power. Am I right in thinking that some fourrees were official or is that a grey area? Here&#039;s a virtually identical reverse of a Vespasian denarius of AD 70.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]629133[/ATTACH] </p><p>So I guess there&#039;s a possibility that my coin could actually have been made later than the obverse of AD 54, depending on the age of the die design of course? I never guessed what a puzzle this would turn out to be, to say that this is only my second Roman coin find. It&#039;s certainly been interesting/educational researching this one and I agree that we will never know quite what it is for sure. For what it is worth I will get the museum&#039;s verdict and update here, but the process will no doubt take many months.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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