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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValiantKnight, post: 1760588, member: 44210&quot;]I have a couple of ancients that display a numbered year on it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>First is my denarius of Vespasian. He became Roman emperor in 69 AD. While he was emperor, he became a consul as well (basically the Roman version of a prime minister) in the fifth year of his reign, and on coins of this year this was displayed as COS V ( V is the Roman numeral for 5). So 69 + 5 = the year my coin was struck: 74 AD.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/Vespasiancoin.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Technically my next is early medieval, but its basically the same concept. This is my decanummium of Byzantine emperor Justinian I. On the reverse has ANNO (Latin for year) to the left-hand side on the reverse, and on the right, the Roman numerals XXXVII (37) in three lines. This shows that it was made in the 37th year of his reign, which started in 527 AD. Add 527 and 37 and you get 564 AD, the year it was struck (Justinian I died the next year, 565 AD, making this one of the last coins struck in his name).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/JustinianIRavenna_zpsfbb7db7e.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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