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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 13341, member: 56&quot;]I got a bag full of coins at a thrift several years ago.&nbsp; Some local subway tokens in it more than paid for the bag, and there were some coins interesting to me but of no particular value.&nbsp; There was also this:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/hoozzatt/Temp/RomanSilverCoinDenariusAD211_zps71ac636b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>I asked about it on the eBay coin board and here&#039;s the response:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>agathetyche&nbsp; May 21/08</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Actually, this is an interesting coin. It is a sestertius from the later years of Geta, son of Severus. Obverse legend P SEPTIMIUS GETA PIVS AVG BRIT, bearded laureate head. Reverse probably FORT RED TR P III COS II PP SC, Fortune seated left. Reference RIC (Roman Imperial Coinage) 168a, struck 211 AD. Geta is shown bearded, like his father. The next year Geta got the chop from his older brother Caracalla, so these bearded portrait pieces weren&#039;t struck for very long.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Geta Æ Sestertius. 211 AD. P SEPTIMIVS GETA PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate head right / FORT RED TR P III COS II P P, SC below, Fortuna seated left, holding rudder &amp; cornucopiae, wheel under seat. Cohen 52.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>So this coin was 1000 years old when Magna Carta was signed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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