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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 26397216, member: 13650&quot;]Cool finds!&nbsp; That&#039;s awesome.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m a complete noob to roman coinage but have been collecting and reading about them this summer.&nbsp; I understand the inscriptions much better than I did.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The larger one is likely a sestertius, worth one quarter of a denarius.&nbsp; These were commonly used in commerce.&nbsp; I can&#039;t make out the inscription on that but the portrait looks like Severus Alexander to me.&nbsp; &nbsp; An expert may chime in and say I&#039;m completely wrong but that&#039;s my theory.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The denarius, unfortunately, the most critical part of the inscription at roughly 10 to 12 o&#039;clock around the portrait is severely corroded.&nbsp; &nbsp; As much as I can make out on it is &quot; IMP&nbsp; CA*S** ANTONINUS AUG&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; Several emperors had ANTONINUS in the end of their inscription so that part doesn&#039;t completely narrow it down but the portrait itself eliminates some of the options.&nbsp; &nbsp; If it&#039;s a short lived, lesser known one it may be fairly valuable.&nbsp;&nbsp; Maybe I should recognize it and somebody will come along and I&#039;ll feel like a fool but I can&#039;t ID it off the cuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit:&nbsp; Ok, never mind my ramblings.&nbsp;&nbsp; Looks like it was answered above.&nbsp; I thought the denarius could be Elegabalus but I wasn&#039;t sure the portrait looked right.&nbsp; He had a short reign so it&#039;s more valuable than some of the other more common ones.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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