Help me identify this Roman coin

tryppyr

Hi. I've recently overcleaned this Roman coin (quite intentionally, so no need to chastise me). Now I find myself curious what it is. Can one of you with more experience in this area than I tell me more about it (age, denomination, etc)?


Thanks

- Greg

Sapyx

Hmm, not much detail left. "SC" indicates a Roman origin, but the retrograde "S" leads me to incline towards an Eastern mint - Antioch made quite a few "SC" coppers. As for the other side, I can't even tell which way is up, or whether it's supposed to be a portrait or not.

Conclusion: a provincial bronze, eastern mint (Antioch?), circa 50-150 AD.

Aethelred

Very little to go on here, but I also thought Antioch when I first saw it.

tryppyr

Thanks to you both. I realize there's very little detail. That's one of the reasons I was comfortable with the decision to overclean.

Thanks again.

Automan

I think this might just be a Balkan copy of an Augustus' moneyers' series As.

These coins circulated alongside "Roman" specimens in the 1st century in the Balkan area.

Those who made them could not read or write, and copied inscriptions on Roman coins. They also either did not realise or care that inscriptions (to the extent that they even attempted to form letters at all) should be engraved "mirrored".

Automan