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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 7838, member: 57463&quot;]IOVIS CONSERVATOR (Jove or &quot;Jupiter&quot; the Conservor or &quot;savior&quot;) is usually accepted as the reverse (&quot;tails&quot;) with the bust on the obverse.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Can you post a scan here for us to look at?</p><p><br /></p><p>How do know they are gold coins? You compared them to US silver coins.&nbsp; How do they look or feel against a Sovereign or a Mexican 2 Pesos?&nbsp; If you cannot read any of the lettering on the heads and so little on the tails, that does not speak well for them.&nbsp; Gold coins tended not to circulate much, so most of the ones we have tend to be pretty sharp.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Jove Conservators are usually bronze coins (or debased silver) from the late 200s AD, either the time of the Military Anarchy or the opening of the Constantine Dynasty.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is hard to tell without something to look at.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Michael[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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