Today's found coins in the middle east area

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On a Roman coin, a figure holding scales and a cornucopia typically represents the goddess "Moneta", the personification of money, signifying the concept of fair and abundant wealth, as the scales symbolize balance and the cornucopia represents plenty. The coin may also show Aequitas, the personification of the emperor's fairness and equity . Both Moneta and Aequitas appear quite similar.
Don in SoCal
 

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The MONETA coin was issued at five mints with several similar legends that are variants of:
SACRA MONET AVGG ET CAESS NOSTR "Sacred coinage of our Augusti and Caesars".
Your coin's reverse legend ends in NN . The Rome mint abbreviated "NOSTR" to "NN" (plural). The NN is preceded by AVGG ET CAESS

If the (reverse) legend begins SAN MON VRB it's either Maximianus or Constantius
If the legend begins SACRA MON VRB it's Galerius
If the legend begins MONTAS it's either Diocletianus, "Max", Constantius or Galerius.
If the legend begins M (dot) SACRA it's Constantius

The (obverse) legend contains IANUS; that suggests either Maximianus or Diocletianus.
Don in SoCal
 

The MONETA coin was issued at five mints with several similar legends that are variants of:
SACRA MONET AVGG ET CAESS NOSTR "Sacred coinage of our Augusti and Caesars".
Your coin's reverse legend ends in NN . The Rome mint abbreviated "NOSTR" to "NN" (plural). The NN is preceded by AVGG ET CAESS

If the (reverse) legend begins SAN MON VRB it's either Maximianus or Constantius
If the legend begins SACRA MON VRB it's Galerius
If the legend begins MONTAS it's either Diocletianus, "Max", Constantius or Galerius.
If the legend begins M (dot) SACRA it's Constantius

The (obverse) legend contains IANUS; that suggests either Maximianus or Diocletianus.
Don in SoCal
Woww!!! Thank you for the great info great forum
I am new to this kind of stuff but I'm loviing it i think i found rout where the roman use to pass and i am searching every inch of it
Thank you again for this great info
 

Anthonygg let me also welcome you to the site :)
 

What doesn't make sense (to me, anyway) is the obverse legend on that coin appears to end with NORCAST; not a Roman legend that I've ever heard of.
Don in SoCal

Good work Don

I read it as NOB rather than NOR. followed by CA and then two very damaged letters. I strongly suspect that it actually reads 'NOB CAES' (most noble Caesar).

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Woww!!! Thank you for the great info great forum
I am new to this kind of stuff but I'm loviing it i think i found rout where the roman use to pass and i am searching every inch of it
Thank you again for this great info
Roman Coins are not normally lost on Roots/Roads/Trackways, they are found on Settlements or farmland.
 

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