Denarius or not ?

[simon c]

Peter,can you confirm if this is a denarius or not,please,am half sure it might be, but it's in such a bad state could just be wishful thinking on my part.

[DIG IT! (ADIE)]

NOt a lot left of that one but if its silver it looks like a denari to me i can just make out a face but its a real tester ???wots on the other side?

[simon c]

Thanks Adie,nothing left of the other side.

[DIG IT! (ADIE)]

As a guess i would say 2nd c trajan or domitian maybe pete will now

[1morecoin]

looks like a counterfeit Denarius of Antonius Pius or Marcus Aurelius.

Just my thoughts though.

Steve. 

[jan]

would asume this to be a base metal coin  coin because the amount of rot.
but its roman

[The Doc]

I agree with Steve, looks like a plated base metal counterfeit.

[simon c]

Thank's for the replies,i appreciate your comments,and as a few have suggested i'm inclined to agree with it being a contempary forgery,so i used the foil method to try and clean it up a bit more,and check if it was silver or not,it reacts with the foil giving the rotten egg smell,and allso gave of  heat during the reaction, it burnt through the foil ,my fingers are still sore,so i would'nt expect a base cored coin to do that or is that normal,far better reaction from this than any hammered coin i've tried this on.Adies guess at 2nd centurary may well be right,i have had a few bronzes from the same site which were id'ed as 2nd centuary.Thanks again for your replies.

[hedgehog]

Hiya Simon, I was on a very good site several years ago , I think it is a silver denarius of Trajan, I was lucky enough to find about 90 different ones over a period of time. This effect had occurred on some of the silver coins, I believe that it is a silver chloride that attacks the coin and basically causes it to crumble.
It's just unfortunate that the ground it was in caused this to happen. Yes it is silver.

[simon c]

Thanks Steve, yes i think it's silver,very interesting about the silver chloride.

[The Doc]

Now it's a bit cleaner, does look like silver, shame it's broken. Roman silver coins (and Celtic) can be very fragile and may shatter if dropped. We had a lovely silver unit shown by a member in Cardiff Scan a year or two ago, which he unfortunately dropped later and smashed

[ROMAN STEVE]

yes it looks like a denarius
to me heard of hammered coins that one is battered
but never mind well done keep swinging

[Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan )]

looking at the reverse it may have been made with base silver, dohh