My MOST BEAUTIFUL SILVER COIN!! 110 BC Roman Republic Denarius

[ironron]

A certain field near st albans, used to turn up hundreds of them in the seventies..easy to get permission then..untill the farmer got fed up with people knocking on his door & banned detectorists..Augustus & tiberius were the best finds..republic were the dross.

Those were the good old days

 

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[CRUSADER]

A certain field near st albans, used to turn up hundreds of them in the seventies..easy to get permission then..untill the farmer got fed up with people knocking on his door & banned detectorists..Augustus & tiberius were the best finds..republic were the dross.

Those were the good old days

Good area, had a couple of Celtic minted from there.

I bet you wish you had the technology they have now, back then, you would have cleared up big time.

 

[Chicago Ron]

Congrats on the great coin! Belongs on the top row! Banner!
I found one very similar on my spring trip to England. The Roman Expert we use dated it to 101 BC

This one took a bit of digging, but it appears to be a denarius of L. Sentius C. f., 101 BC. Behind the helmeted head of Roma, it's inscribed ARG PVB - short for EX ARGENTO PVBLICO - or made from public silver. Since all denarii were in fact coined from metal in the State bullion reserve at the time, no one is too sure why a few coins of ths era state the obvious. It was around the time of the ascendency of Gaius Marius, though, and a lot of things were "different" at the time.
On the reverse is Jupiter driving a quadriga, holding a scepter and thunderbolt. Beneath that, if there were more of the coin surviving, you would be able to read L • SENTI • C • F.
The reference is RSC/Babelon Sentia 1a, SR 203.

Mark

 

[ironron]

A certain field near st albans, used to turn up hundreds of them in the seventies..easy to get permission then..untill the farmer got fed up with people knocking on his door & banned detectorists..Augustus & tiberius were the best finds..republic were the dross.

Those were the good old days

Good area, had a couple of Celtic minted from there.

I bet you wish you had the technology they have now, back then, you would have cleared up big time.

Only had a c-scope TR200 then..but used to do the business..quarter staters. units of tasciovanus & cunobelin.
You name it.

 

[ironron]

A certain field near st albans, used to turn up hundreds of them in the seventies..easy to get permission then..untill the farmer got fed up with people knocking on his door & banned detectorists..Augustus & tiberius were the best finds..republic were the dross.

Those were the good old days

Good area, had a couple of Celtic minted from there.

I bet you wish you had the technology they have now, back then, you would have cleared up big time.

You seem to have some good sites yourself..looking at the list of finds under your avaatar.

 

[relicminer]

Outstanding!!!!

 

[A2coins]

that shouldnt be banner it should be the holy grail wowza

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

As good as it gets - well done !