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Author Topic: Please help to identify and estimate coins  (Read 549 times)

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Please help to identify and estimate coins
« on: September 29, 2015, 06:13:06 am »
Please, help to identify and estimate this two coins:

1.  Caracalla AV Aureus. 198 AD. IMP CAES M AVR ANT AVG P TR P

2.  Septimius Severus Aureus LEG XX II TRP COS
I can`t find this one anywere, is it so rare? or is it unique?

Thank`s for help!

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Re: Please help to identify and estimate coins
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2015, 06:42:22 am »

Caracalla. AD 198-217. AV Aureus (7.32 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 198. IMP CAES M AVR ANT AVG P TR P, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / SPES P-VBLICA, Spes advancing left, holding flower in extended right hand and raising hem of skirt with left. RIC IV 26b; Calicó 2820;

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Re: Please help to identify and estimate coins
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2015, 09:02:02 am »
Please read the rules.  One coin per post.  Give size and weight.  We do not give value estimates.

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Re: Please help to identify and estimate coins
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2015, 10:52:16 pm »
LEG XXII is well known on denarii, but indeed seems to be a new type on aurei.
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