This always had a glint of shiny to it, but i thought it was a limes denarius and i just bought a shiny new(to me anyway) nice looking one.. today I got a couple in(I'll post inna few) and I was at the coin&stuff table weighing and measuring getting ready to take pics of them and this was sitting there looking at me. I've considered selling this and the Ae of Julia together as a set of limes coins. Anyway. i'm looking at it and thought 'hey, it's got a shine poking out of the black, let's just find out once and for all if it is or ain't.. so I soap brushed it for a while, more shine poking out.. it's already got places where it wouldn't be too noticeable,(like with my Marc Anthony coin)for a scrap and test cut..Lo and behold, I've had a silver Sept. Severus this whole time(12 years) and didn't know it..now I've got two! Anyone got a similar story? Septimius Severus AR denarius. Obverse: Bust right Reverse: flying Victory left, C O C lll PP 17 mm 2.17gms. POST YOUR COMMENT & COINS PEEP!
Good luck all the way, even after a long while. Well yes I have similar glad stories. The best I remember had 2 and not one victory. It was of Gallienus, and I thought it was bronze because it was really dark and black. Vota Orbis on reverse. That was few years ago. I was so happy to find out it was silver just as yours.
hmm.. i got the reverse legend from another coin on google, and it wasn't correct, this one is also a COS..and i'm not positive about the lll either..i remember when i showed this coin here a couple of years back, i couldn't figure out why it was black and questioned it, then remembered the original cardboard window said limes on it..
Looks like you be making Limes into Limade! Nice find... took ya awhile! Hmmm... well here's a Limey: (yeah, he built a wall in Limeyland... RI Hadrian, AD 117-138 Æ Limes Denarius 18mm 3.5mm after AD 125 Genius stndg sacrificing altar cornucopia RIC II 173
....here's what i was talking about @galba68 ....i bought and thought this one to be limes( for years) but on a test cut..its silver...black is the last color of turning silver... o-1
This coin was sold to me as a limes. It was a single metal detector field find from just outside the town of Carmarthen in west Wales in the UK. This one of of the westernmost outposts of the Roman Empire and a long way for this coin to have travelled. I suspected that it was silver underneath. It is one of the few coins that I have ever attempted to clean.
