✅ SOLVED Old coin - any ideas?

[Squatty]

I dug this up recently, and have no idea what sort of a coin it is, but clearly it has seen some miles. It looks hand struck and none US. Any ideas?The quarter is for scale.

 

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[pong12211]

I have no idea but Mackaydon will surely know.. Good luck.

 

[Adam Harrington]

That's awsome.

 

[deepsecrets]

It's a Roman bronze - maybe provincial coin? Can't tell which Emperor at this point

 

[Mackaydon]

Victory standing on the reverse

 

[deepsecrets]

Victory standing on the reverse

Radiate head right - maybe Trajan??

 

[Mackaydon]

Radiate head right, yes; maybe Hadrian.

 

[Bramblefind]

I thought this might be close - not sure though.

HobbyBlog

What a fantastic find! whatever it turns out to be - congratulations!

 

[Mackaydon]

Here's another one like "Bramblefind's"

Sold for $218 a couple of months ago.
Don...

 

[NOLA_Ken]

You dug this in the US?

 

[Squatty]

Boy those two look pretty close. Thank you for the help. I figured it was old... but not that old!

 

[ivan salis]

if found in the US it is a quite odd find as its a "roman" coin --un less you had a very old time "coin collecter " who lost it

 

[Alchemy]

There have been caches of roman coins found in the US (google Ohio, when they were blasting for a bridge) Also, some wash up on the east cost shoreline from time to time.
But, it's rare. I'd go back to the site you found it and search more, every square inch!!!

The coin in my avatar was found in a cave in NY about 45 years ago. It's been said tho (by D. Sear) that's it's a copy from the late 1700's to early 1800's. It fooled all other experts of ancients, so I hang on to it just in case (and hope, lol)

Awesome find. I hope you find more!

 

[Dogtirednj]

My Grandad carried a "lucky coin" he "found" over in Europe during WWII. Looked a lot like that.

 

[cti4sw]

My Grandad carried a "lucky coin" he "found" over in Europe during WWII. Looked a lot like that.

...and this is a plausible explanation of how the coin in question came to be lost in the US.