Wow, what a cool coin, Carla. There is a growing segment of numismatics (coin collecting) that focuses on ancient coins. Most ancients come from Greece and Rome. With Tiberius Ceasar on your coin, you can be sure it is from ancient Rome. It is something, in my opinion, to hold a piece of silver in your hand and know it comes from the time when Jesus Christ walked this earth. Amazing.

As amazed as I am, I cannot give you a good appraisal of value. We have a very abbreviated staff here at CoinQuest and do not have expertise in ancients. Checking reputable web sites with ancient coins shows they retail between $50 and $400 US dollars, typically. Coins in good condition, like the one in our picture, hit the high end of that range. Be careful of counterfeits, as they abound in the world of ancient coins. There are plenty of experts around the Internet, including those at ForumAncientCoins.

CoinQuest has a business relationship with VCoins.com and they are loaded with experts on ancient coins. In fact, I notice a coin like yours for sale on the VCoins site for $267 US dollars (do a search for Tiberius). You should contact VCoins and see what they think about your coin. If you wanted to sell it to them, figure they would offer you around $100 or so. The difference between what they offer and what they sell for is normal dealer margin, which is about 100 percent for coins like yours. Without such margins, dealers would have a hard time staying afloat.