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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24732690, member: 26430&quot;]Definitely NOT &quot;time of Augustus Caesar&quot;! That&#039;s a Flavian era (Vespasian, Titus or Domitian) AE As, c. 69-81 CE. Can&#039;t tell what the reverse is, but some comparisons:</p><ul> <li>Vespasian, 69-79 CE: <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=vespasian+ae+as+%22laureate+head+left%22+69+79&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=vespasian+ae+as+%22laureate+head+left%22+69+79&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=3" rel="nofollow">examples of Vespasian AE As &quot;laureate head left&quot;</a> ;</li> <li>Titus, 69-81 CE: examples of <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=titus+ae+as+%22laureate+head+left%22&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=titus+ae+as+%22laureate+head+left%22&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=3" rel="nofollow">Titus AE As &quot;laureate head left&quot;</a> ;</li> <li>Domitian, 69-81 CE: <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=domitian+ae+as+%22laureate+head+left%22+81&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=domitian+ae+as+%22laureate+head+left%22+81&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=3" rel="nofollow">Domitian AE As &quot;laureate head left&quot;</a>.</li> </ul><p>I would guess Vespasian (but really I&#039;d believe any of the three)? Someone who collects Flavians seriously could probably positively ID the portrait.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For future reference: Beware that International Numismatic Bureau isn&#039;t an actual grading/certification company. (Also: Notice there&#039;s no grade.) I forget his name &amp; location, but it&#039;s literally just a guy with a printer.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know why, but he literally gets the identifications incorrect more often than they are correct. It&#039;s weird, he&#039;s done tens of thousands of these so I would think he&#039;d have gotten a bit more skillful at IDs!</p><p><br /></p><p>For ancients, &quot;major grading firms&quot; refers to:</p><ul> <li>ICG (they were first, c. 2001/2, started by partnering with Heritage);</li> <li>NGC (far and away the best, tried to start in the 1990s w/ CNG/V. England, but stopped by a letter-writing&nbsp; campaign! started slabbing early 2010s);</li> <li>ANACS (originally part of the ANA, but became a separate firm long ago, they also did certificates long before slabbing);</li> <li>CCG (Classical Coin Grading, a new firm in Europe -- San Marino -- that seems to have made a serious investment and has competent professionals, from what I&#039;ve heard)</li> </ul><p>Not everyone thinks encapsulation of ancients is worthwhile, but even those who do, don&#039;t take other &quot;companies&quot; seriously. (I feel like there may be one more European or Asian startup that I&#039;m forgetting.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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