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Can Somebody Help Me Identify this Ancient Coin
djm
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Hi:
I am new to ancients and got the coin in the photos. I was wondering if someone could identify it for me.
Sorry the photos aren't the best.
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djm
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It has a very tall radiate crown (sometime after 230AD, but many coins have smaller radiate crowns).
Obverse legend ends with PF AVG, but this does not narrow it down much.
If you can read what the legend starts with, like IMP, that could help.
I'm not sure what's on the reverse. Photos are close, but maybe a gray or brown background would help.
The coin picture looks like Emperor Postumus.
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Hard to say, with the focus in those pix and the surfaces of the coin being as they are.
I'm getting a "barbarous radiate" aura, here, though I'll defer to those with more knowledge.
As far as WB2's "Postumus" hunch (which could be right, for all I know), it could also, if a barbarous imitation, be from around that same time and general vicinity (i.e., mid- to late-3rd century Gaul)?
So it could be Postumus, Tetricus I or Tetricus II, or barbarous imitations of these.
The radiate crowns on Tetricus I and II have the double outlines like this coin.
I'd lean towards Tetricus II, since he is usually clean shaven. See photos of examples at:
wildwinds.com/coins/ric/tetricus_II/t.html
These are 251-253AD.
I hadn't noticed the double-outlined crown before. That's part of what made me think "barbarous radiate". So while I guess it still could be a barbarous imitation, I suppose you could be right. It could be "regal" issue, too, I guess.