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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 41729, member: 57463&quot;]The portrait looks like Marcus Aurelius or Septimius Severus.&nbsp; It is hard to tell even though I cropped the pictures, blew them up, played with them, etc.&nbsp; Marcus Aurelius ruled about 180 AD; Septimius Severus about 200.&nbsp; SC (Senatus Consulto) appeared on bronze coins, generally, seldom on silver.&nbsp; That means that this was intended as a bronze coin.&nbsp; If it is the size of a US Quarter Dollar, then this would be, likely, an <u>as</u>.&nbsp; You might have some luck searching the Wildwinds site (<a href="http://www.wildwinds.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com" rel="nofollow">www.wildwinds.com</a>) for the emperors.&nbsp; You will have a lot of hits.&nbsp; So, narrow it for bronze or AE (abbreviation for bronze).&nbsp; Also narrow it for VICT and &quot;biga&quot;&nbsp; (biga=two horses drawing a chariot).&nbsp; It will still take some work to search, but you will be looking at hundreds, not thousands, of images.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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