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<p>[QUOTE="furryfrog02, post: 4036535, member: 41219"]FFIVN came home off the bus a bit ago and after showing me how to build a small lego set he made this morning, we sat down to figure out his last coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>He was able to easily read the obverse and therefore narrow it down to Commodus who is not an emperor we are really familiar with - only having one extremely beat up denarius that was purchased when we first got interested in ancients.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a bit of difficulty on the reverse since he wasn't 100% sure what all the different shortened legends were. We don't have a lot of experience with older Roman coins with legends like that. After a bit of scrolling through wildwinds though, led him to RIC 67. I explained to him how each of those legends made it possible to date the coin to an exact year. In this case, 187. He thought that was really cool that you could tell the year the coin it was minted without there being the date on the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then we went over to wikipedia and read a bit about Commodus. He couldn't believe how awful he was and how the people put up with him for so long. The straw that broke the camel's back for him though, was when we read that Commodus once killed a giraffe in the arena. He can't fathom why anyone would want to kill a giraffe. </p><p><br /></p><p>Needless to say, he was happy when Commodus got his comeuppance <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now we are looking forward to March when the Baltimore Whitman show comes back to town so we can hopefully find something new and interesting to add to the collection and of course share here with you all!</p><p><br /></p><p>Commodus </p><p>Denarius</p><p>183 AD</p><p>Obverse: M COMMODVS ANTON AVG PIVS, laureate head right </p><p>Reverse: TR P VIII IMP VI COS IIII P P, Victory standing right, naked to waist, writing on shield set on palm</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1059886[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="furryfrog02, post: 4036535, member: 41219"]FFIVN came home off the bus a bit ago and after showing me how to build a small lego set he made this morning, we sat down to figure out his last coin. He was able to easily read the obverse and therefore narrow it down to Commodus who is not an emperor we are really familiar with - only having one extremely beat up denarius that was purchased when we first got interested in ancients. There was a bit of difficulty on the reverse since he wasn't 100% sure what all the different shortened legends were. We don't have a lot of experience with older Roman coins with legends like that. After a bit of scrolling through wildwinds though, led him to RIC 67. I explained to him how each of those legends made it possible to date the coin to an exact year. In this case, 187. He thought that was really cool that you could tell the year the coin it was minted without there being the date on the coin. Then we went over to wikipedia and read a bit about Commodus. He couldn't believe how awful he was and how the people put up with him for so long. The straw that broke the camel's back for him though, was when we read that Commodus once killed a giraffe in the arena. He can't fathom why anyone would want to kill a giraffe. Needless to say, he was happy when Commodus got his comeuppance :) Now we are looking forward to March when the Baltimore Whitman show comes back to town so we can hopefully find something new and interesting to add to the collection and of course share here with you all! Commodus Denarius 183 AD Obverse: M COMMODVS ANTON AVG PIVS, laureate head right Reverse: TR P VIII IMP VI COS IIII P P, Victory standing right, naked to waist, writing on shield set on palm [ATTACH=full]1059886[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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