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info from museum on Roman coin

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Got my UK goodies exported this week. Some may remember the dolphin coin thought to be Greek? Well I got a great ID from the museum. It's a debased Silver Roman Denarius from 76 BC. <img src="/metal/html/shocked.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":shock"> This is long before the Romans invaded Britian, & only the 2nd BC Roman to be dug there on the tours. Per the museum it has: "Winged boy on dolphin speeding right" & the words: "L.LVCERTI TRIO". This is the moneyer & it was minted in Rome. The back "head side" is quite interesting. Say's: "Laureate head of Neptune w. trident over shoulder". Yes, it's hard to see all that, but I can't complain after over 2000 years being buried <img src="/metal/html/blush.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":redface"> HH, Bill
 
I hope I look that good when I'm 2000 years old! <img src="/metal/html/razz.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":razz">
 
or the little "fork thing" going left off the shoulder area & the outline of the winged boy as well. I'll have to look into some Roman coin sites online to try to find a match.
 
One of my goals is a Roman Silver !! Didn't get one yet in three trips.
 
we couldn't figure out what the dolphin was. Cool having been able to hold that coin and flip it around trying to makes sense of it. Did Chris hand carry it to you? Hope you all had a good visit! You definitely got the best finds of the week in Colchester. HH, Mike
 
the island by some drunken barbarian hoard (thats h.o.a.r.d. get your mind out of the gutter). <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
HH Tom
 
I'm still trying to find a coin minted before 1900 <img src="/metal/html/sad.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":sad">
Congrats again!
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Pretty neat, Bill, finding a coin of that antiquity, with its markings sufficiently identifiable, 21 centuries later. Congratulations!
 
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