Roman silver Denar - my oldest Coin yet !!!

[TheDane]

During the search of new traces or settlements of the Vikings in an area related to a trading station about a mile away at the sea and finds of large amounts of pottery, I found my oldest coin yet.
The teory is that there must be a settlement further inland, because they wouldn´t settle just at the sea because risk of pirates or attacking armies comming for the sea would be too big.
To my big surprice a new field, where I had just found a little silver drop, typically Wiking Age, as its second item gave this splendid and very well preserved Roman coin.
There was a find of a half arabic dirhem too, and that is dated to the Wiking age.
This makes this new find spot very interesting, because it covers an time gap of about 800-900 years.
The area must be investigated further before it is possible to say if this is a main settlement or just a little find.
The coin is a roman denar of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antonius (180-192 AD)

Enjoy !

 

[Aquila]

Congrats!

 

[CRUSADER]

Very nice Denarius Congrats on your oldest

 

[veronasteve]

nice silver

 

[Deepdiger60]

Beautiful silver coin looks fantastic for a coin 1800+ years old . Good hunt Dd60

 

[Iron Patch]

Oldest and a fine looking coin too!

 

[DrJoePrime]

Nice!

Yep I enjoyed!

HH Joe

 

[Treasure $ Trekkies]

Wow! real cool digs!

 

[dwayne sueno]

gorgeous coin. huge congrats, and hope you find some more on par with it at your new site!

 

[TheDane]

Thank you all

Yes, I´m very happy with the find !

 

[Mackaydon]

More specifically, I think it's Commodus, AR Denarius, 186-189
M COMM ANT-P FEL AVG BRIT
Laureate head right
OPTIME-M_AXIME
Jupiter standing left, thunderbolt in right hand, scepter in left
Similar to RIC III, 192 (S)
Scroll down to about the 18th coin here: http://www.beastcoins.com/RomanImperial/III/Commodus/Commodus.htm

 

[Mr Tuff]

awesome coin MR TUFF

 

[Trond]

Nice find.

 

[dragonsbreath]

A really superb coin well found and congratulations.....

 

[TheDane]

More specifically, I think it's Commodus, AR Denarius, 186-189
M COMM ANT-P FEL AVG BRIT
Laureate head right
OPTIME-M_AXIME
Jupiter standing left, thunderbolt in right hand, scepter in left
Similar to RIC III, 192 (S)
Scroll down to about the 18th coin here: http://www.beastcoins.com/RomanImperial/III/Commodus/Commodus.htm

Thanks Mackaydon !
Yes it´s very close, but not 100%. The M in MAXIME is on the other side of the hand.
As far as I know these were made often with hundreds of variations, so it is almost like finding a needle in a haystack.
This came very close thou !

 

[MaineRelic]

A great find ! and great research !! Thanks for posting !!! MaineRelic

 

[CRUSADER]

More specifically, I think it's Commodus, AR Denarius, 186-189
M COMM ANT-P FEL AVG BRIT
Laureate head right
OPTIME-M_AXIME
Jupiter standing left, thunderbolt in right hand, scepter in left
Similar to RIC III, 192 (S)
Scroll down to about the 18th coin here: http://www.beastcoins.com/RomanImperial/III/Commodus/Commodus.htm

Thanks Mackaydon !
Yes it´s very close, but not 100%. The M in MAXIME is on the other side of the hand.
As far as I know these were made often with hundreds of variations, so it is almost like finding a needle in a haystack.
This came very close thou !

It is the correct ID RIC III, 192 (Dad has the books)

 

[cntrydncr1]

awesome!!

 

[TheDane]

More specifically, I think it's Commodus, AR Denarius, 186-189
M COMM ANT-P FEL AVG BRIT
Laureate head right
OPTIME-M_AXIME
Jupiter standing left, thunderbolt in right hand, scepter in left
Similar to RIC III, 192 (S)
Scroll down to about the 18th coin here: http://www.beastcoins.com/RomanImperial/III/Commodus/Commodus.htm

Thanks Mackaydon !
Yes it´s very close, but not 100%. The M in MAXIME is on the other side of the hand.
As far as I know these were made often with hundreds of variations, so it is almost like finding a needle in a haystack.
This came very close thou !

It is the correct ID RIC III, 192 (Dad has the books)

Hi
I didn´t say it was incorrect, but it might be a variation of the one in the link, as the M in MAXIME is written together with the other letters in the word on my coin.

 

[TheDane]

Hi again !

Found this, also called 192, with the word MAXIME written together !!

http://www.tha.dk/Default.aspx?doc=WWW.LOT&L=LOT/774206&c1=

Thanks for your help !