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[bowser]

Found this hope it's real

 

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[Moe (fl)]

It looks real. Provide better pictures of both sides so that it can be identified.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Where is IP, Crusader, or SS?

 

[Mackaydon]

Looks Roman; close up pics of both sides would certainly help to ID.

 

[Silver Searcher]

A beter picture would help, the legend does not seem to make any sence and letters poor, they seem to get bigger

SS

 

[lazooro]

Probus Alexandria... nice!!!

http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/bigp...obus/milne_4560.jpg&ruler=./ric/probus/i.html

 

[lazooro]

Where is IP, Crusader, or SS?

Me? :P

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Where is IP, Crusader, or SS?

Me? :P

Where is LaZoOro?

 

[Mackaydon]

Nice catch LaZo!!
Here's another variety:
http://www.coinarchives.com/a/lotvi...&Lot=441&Val=fe7ad8b642887a97a6b11bb7946bba2a

 

[Silver Searcher]

Where is IP, Crusader, or SS?

Me? :P

Great ID Laz

SS

 

[lazooro]

Where is IP, Crusader, or SS?

Me? :P

Great ID Laz

SS

thx

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Laz

 

[spartacus53]

bowser, did you find this in MA? I just wonder what collector may have lost that ancient little beauty. I'd love to know how the coin got here

 

[Silver Searcher]

bowser, did you find this in MA? I just wonder what collector may have lost that ancient little beauty. I'd love to know how the coin got here

Perhaps it wasn't a collector


•Roman coins have been found in Venezuela and Maine.
•Roman coins were found in Texas at the bottom of an Indian mound at Round Rock. The mound is dated at approximately 800 AD.
•In 1957 near Phenix City, Alabama, a small boy found a coin in a field from Syracuse on the island of Sicily, and dating from 490 B.C.
•In the town of Heavener, Oklahoma, another out-of-place coin was found in 1976. Experts identified it as a bronze tetradrachm originally struck in Antioch, Syria in 63 A.D. and bearing the profile of the emperor Nero.
•In 1882, a farmer in Cass County, Illinois picked up a bronze coin later identified as a coin of Antiochus IV, one of the kings of Syria who reigned from 175 B.C. to 164 B.C.


SS

 

[NOLA_Ken]

http://www.jstor.org/pss/2741739

 

[tomjiggy]

Them Viking settlers at it again...lol. They have speculated that the Vikings were actually the first settlers of America, and I believe I read an article that stated someone had found remnants of a Viking settlement in Maine somewhere. Didn't the Vikings raid some Roman towns/areas? That might explain some Roman coins showing up in strange places. You can't leave out the fact that there are several collectors out there with kids who like to "look" at Daddys' nice coins. By looking, I mean picking up and pocketing. Gotta show their friends at their secret fort out in the field...lol

 

[bowser]

Them Viking settlers at it again...lol. They have speculated that the Vikings were actually the first settlers of America, and I believe I read an article that stated someone had found remnants of a Viking settlement in Maine somewhere. Didn't the Vikings raid some Roman towns/areas? That might explain some Roman coins showing up in strange places. You can't leave out the fact that there are several collectors out there with kids who like to "look" at Daddys' nice coins. By looking, I mean picking up and pocketing. Gotta show their friends at their secret fort out in the field...lol

my coin was found in the town of WEYMOUTH MA. 12 miles south of BOSTON,coincidently the coin you speak of found in Maine was found by my former neighboer GUY MELLGREN,now deceased who owned and operated the COUNTRY WAY NURSERY in the town of HINGHAM MA. GOOGLE THE MAINE PENNY.

 

[dfx willy]

ahh ha! were getting somewere now. roman it is. id like to here crusaders thoughts on this? willy

 

[Silver Searcher]

The reverse depends on what the two letters are either side of coin, it looks like.
Probus Potin Tetradrachm of Alexandria. Year 3 = 277-278 AD. A K M AVP A K M AUR PRO-BOC CEB, laureate and cuirassed bust right / L-G, eagle standing left, head right, with wreath in its beak. Milne 4566; Emmett 3985.

Not that the letters on coin look like to letter Ls but infact one is G.

SS

 

[bowser]

Wow thank you very much for your replies, I guess this could be my best find in 8 years of detecting. I just wonder how it got to MA. in the first place.