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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 822066, member: 4910&quot;]From CNN News:</p><p><br /></p><p>A Roman coin from A.D. 248-250, when the Romans occupied the region.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin had been left at the Houston Museum of Natural Science by a </p><p>man who said he was a contractor in Iraq.</p><p><br /></p><p>The museum&#039;s curator of anthropology alerted federal authorities.</p><p><br /></p><p>Article:</p><p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/02/25/us.iraq.artifacts/index.html?hpt=T2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/02/25/us.iraq.artifacts/index.html?hpt=T2" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/02/25/us.iraq.artifacts/index.html?hpt=T2</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Photograph of coin from US Immigration and Customs (ICE):</p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_us_iraq_romancoin_ice.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The article doesn&#039;t identify the coin but it looks like this one from Philip I (Philip the Arab)</p><p><br /></p><p>Wildwinds ancient coin database - Antioch AE29 BMC 531:</p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_us_iraq_romancoin_wildwinds.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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