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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 25954602, member: 10461&quot;]Aha!&nbsp; Not just some piddling late Roman bronze, but a silver denarius from the 2nd century, it looks like!&nbsp; I can&#039;t make out the inscriptions, but the portrait looks like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninus_Pius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninus_Pius" rel="nofollow">Antoninus Pius</a> or (admittedly in a longshot) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clodius_Albinus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clodius_Albinus" rel="nofollow">Clodius Albinus</a>.&nbsp; Probably the former.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure the Ancients folk can help with that if you need it.&nbsp; Particularly if you post pix of both sides on the Ancients forum.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">Edit:</span></b> no, wait!&nbsp; I suppose that &quot;SS&quot; written on the flip <i>could</i> mean not just Secret Santa, but <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septimius_Severus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septimius_Severus" rel="nofollow">Septimius Severus</a>.&nbsp; He was another bearded chap.&nbsp; But he had more of a forked beard.&nbsp; Those more seasoned than I will know the answer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, they&#039;re really quite fun.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.colleconline.com/en/items/309469/coins-world-japan-edo-period-ca-1832-1858-gold-2-shu" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.colleconline.com/en/items/309469/coins-world-japan-edo-period-ca-1832-1858-gold-2-shu" rel="nofollow">I have a gold one</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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