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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3517346, member: 44316&quot;]I wrote a web site on the quadrans denomination, which is similar to and often hard to distinguish from, the semis denomination. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/quadrans/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/quadrans/" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/quadrans/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone can write a web site so that in itself does not make me an expert, but I think you can agree I have put some time into the issue of how to distinguish a semis. That is not a semis.</p><p><br /></p><p>The semis denomination did not exist in the time of Commodus. It is not even certain they were any in the time of Marcus as Augustus. Also, take a look at the examples on the page and you will see that neither the quadrans nor the semis ever looks like that with a long legend. Also, figural types are almost non-existent (the one there is a &quot;coin of the mines&quot; piece). </p><p><br /></p><p>So, you can take your choice between two options. 1) It is an unrecorded semis in great shape from after the semis denomination was no longer being made as far as scholars know, and this one is with design unlike other semis pieces in two major ways, or 2) it is a base metal imitation denarius among the many somewhat similar &quot;limes&quot; denarii of the period.&nbsp; (By the way, I have a site on imitations, too:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/</a>&nbsp; )[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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