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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gao, post: 1231599, member: 19409&quot;]Looks like a third century coin from Nicaea.&nbsp; The emperor looks younger, so I&#039;m thinking that it&#039;s Severus Alexander or Gordian III.&nbsp; Compare it to something like <a href="http://wildwinds.com/coins/ric/severus_alexander/_nicaea_AE20_RecGen_617.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://wildwinds.com/coins/ric/severus_alexander/_nicaea_AE20_RecGen_617.jpg" rel="nofollow">this</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I&#039;m right, this was minted in Nicaea while it was under Roman control.&nbsp; During this period, while the empire did have a centralized coinage system, they still allowed many, many cities to mint coins specifically for local use. These are usually called Roman Provicial coins, though older sources often use Greek Imperial (since most of them were in Greek speaking areas and had Greek writing on them), and some academic sources call them Roman Civic coins.&nbsp; These coins were made in local denominations, and we often don&#039;t have much of an understanding of their worth relative to the centralized coinage.&nbsp; Nicaean coins with 3 standards on the reverse are probably the most common examples of this type of coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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