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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 7493618, member: 99456&quot;]This may be a bit of a stretch, but this has always looked like the emperor as Victory to me.&nbsp; This is one of 1,049 coins found between December 2004 and January 2007 in the Dereham (Norfolk) Hoard discovered by metal detectorists Pat &amp; Sally Buckley in a field outside the town of Dereham.&nbsp; It was the largest largest hoard of its kind ever found in Norfolk.&nbsp; Although the largest number of coins in this hoard were from Severus Alexander, there were coins from Mark Antony to Gordian III.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1295573[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Severus Alexander</b>, AR Denarius, Uncertain Eastern mint, AD 222</p><p><b>Obv:</b> IMP SEV ALEXAND AVG, laureate and draped bust to right</p><p><b>Rev:</b>&nbsp; VICTORIA AVG, Victory, winged, draped, advancing right, holding wreath in right hand and palm in left hand</p><p><b>Ref: </b>RIC IV <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.sa.302c" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.sa.302c" rel="nofollow">302</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Even if it is just a coin of &quot;someone standing there&quot;- I like the question of : why is this coin of Antioch buried in a field in Dereham, UK?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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