✅ SOLVED Please help ID large Roman coin.....

[Fuzzbg]

Hi.
Could anyone help with an ID please?
Found on TOP of the ground !
No digging involved...

 

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[Silver Searcher]

I can't quite make out the Emperor from the image, but the coin it's self looks like a Sestertius but with out knowing the diameter and weight, it could be a Dupondeus. The SC on the reverse stands for Senatus Consulto Almost all bronze coins issued before the late third century AD bore the letters SC on the reverse. The coin also looks to have been harshly cleaned.

SS

 

[Mackaydon]

Perhaps C PLOTIVS RVFVS IIIVIR AAAFF on the reverse.
Don.....
PS: Augustus

 

[CRUSADER]

Augustus AE As. CAESAR AVGVSTVS TRIBVNIC POTEST, bare head right / C PLOTIVS RVFVS IIIVIR AAAFF around large S.C. * Sear RCV 1680 * WildWinds.com Agreed with the above. This is a hard period of coin to find, CONGRATS

 

[Silver Searcher]

Reverse....CRISPINVS SVLPICIAN IIIVIR AAAF around large SC Dupondius.
Reverse....P LICINIVS STOLO IIIVIR AAAFF..... around large SC Sestertius.
Reverse.... ASINIVS GALLVS III VIR A AAFF ....around large SC Sestertius.
Reverse....C ASINIVS GALLVS IIVIR AAAFF .....around large SC AE Ass

There are a lot of large Roman Bronze Coins with a very similar reverse, with out the correct weight and diameter and the words hardly legible, the rest is pure guess work.

SS

 

[Fuzzbg]

I placed in distilled water with a tiny amount of lemon juice over night.
Next morning I used a wooden tooth pick & all of the crust fell away.
As stated, it was found on top of the ground, & the coin was very lumpy !
Weighs 7g
Diameter 25 mm

Found this one that looks very close ?

 

[Mackaydon]

For anyone who may have an interest........
The letters A A A F F (Auro, Argento, Aere, Flando, Feriundo) allude to the monetal triumvirs, appointed for the coining and stamping of gold, silver, and brass money of the Romans. It was their office to take care that the public coinage should not be counterfeited, nor its material adulterated, nor its proper weight diminished.
This C Plotius (or Plautius) was one of those triumvirs of the mint, who, by the invariable inscription of the above characters, appear to have made themselves officially answerable for the genuineness of the money, struck by their authority. There is also a second brass, on the obverse legend of which is CAESARAVGVST PONT MAX TRIBVNI POT (Pontifex Maximus) with head of Augustus, and on the reverse M SALVIVS OTHO IIIVIR A A A F F. Salvius Otho was another of those moneyers of the Republic, whose name is associated, in like manner, with the issues of gold, silver, and brass, in the early coinage of Augustus. With regard to the expression flando, feriundo, the former word doubtless was intended to designate the process of preparing the globular lumps of metal forming the material of the coin; whilst the latter word shews that they were submitted to the stroke of the hammer, for the purpose of receiving the impress of the die. These were the two principal operations of the ancient mintage.
Source: IIIVIR A A A F F - NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project
Don....

 

[Silver Searcher]

I placed in distilled water with a tiny amount of lemon juice over night.
Next morning I used a wooden tooth pick & all of the crust fell away.
As stated, it was found on top of the ground, & the coin was very lumpy !
Weighs 7g
Diameter 25 mm

Found this one that looks very close ?
View attachment 982931

The weight and diameter would put it close to a AS, but quite light at 7g to the usual 11g, but that could account to wear.

SS

 

[CRUSADER]

I did my attempt at work, as usual Dad has better thoughts:

Excellent attempts by everyone on the Augustus coin but no-one has actually ID’d the right moneyer. The coin is a RIC Vol I 435 and Sears5 1684 version as I can see the TVLLVS III VIR AAAFF elements on the Rev:

Augustus AE As. CAESAR AVGVST PONT MAX TRIBVNIC POT, bare head right / M MAECILIVS TVLLVS III VIR AAA F F, around large SC. Cohen 448. * Sear RCV 1684 * WildWinds.com

As an As of this period (BC 7) it should be about 27mm and around 12gm+


PS.

Sorry Fuzzbg has referenced it as a very close on his latest post and that is the one.

 

[Fuzzbg]

Thanks Crusader, Don & SS.
I still can't believe that it wasn't buried !y