Hi. Please take pity on me for my
complete lack of coin knowledge here. I found this place while Googling about
identification of
ancient coins.
Grandpa claimed that, although it is VERY worn down, this was definitely a real Ancient
Roman coin, and
had been identified as such by "an expert." I am not confident that this is true, because what is left of the design does not seem to resemble any pictures of
Roman coins I've seen, especially the sort of grid or "waffle"
type pattern. I cannot find anything like it in searches, or make heads or tails of what the design on the other
side could have been. I see no letters. I'm stumped.
Help? Is this even actually a coin?
It is about 19mm in
diameter and seems to be made of bronze. It was found in
Egypt in the 1920s, apparently.