What A Coin? Please Help With Identify

The only thing I can find with that mint mark is Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine (DO 19; MIB 65; Sear 779) but that has a very different obverse die.

Wow! Incredible metal detector find. Has to be a once in a lifetime kind of discovery.

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Very nice find, it is Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine.

The obverse is like Sear types 749, 751, 753 with the figures about the same size and at the same level, and Heraclius (left) with a long beard.

But the reverse mint mark is like Sear 779.

A mystery ...

Thank you all for your help!

There are types for which this is typical (749, 751, 753) but not with BOXX rev. (at least as far as my searching took me).


Starts to make you wonder if it's a forgery combining elements of the two types. One can find differences between the OPs coin and recently sold examples with this combination of portraits (the hairs in the long beard are more parallel; Heraclius COnstantine's moustache droops downward on both sides). But if we're comparing to the wrong reference coin ... However, the weight is right (I realize that isn't always diagnostic )

Auturxx;

Well I don't think tdziemia was saying it was fake as much as it could be a contemporary imitation of the barbarians or unlisted. From the site below I referenced earlier and again below: (Mentions Dnieper Delta and notice the "BOXX" reference as well.

-->"Bauer further reports that his colleague Zograph, while spending the summer in southern Russia in 1927, was shown seven Byzantine solidi that were ostensibly found associated with other valuable utensils in the Dnieper Delta. There were six coins of Heraclius and one piece of Constans II. All of the coins of the three-emperor type, and Bauer unfortunately does not record how many there were included in this hoard, were marked BOXX. There is hardly enough information published concerning this hoard to make possible any very significant inferences or conclusions, but it is certainly most probable that the contents of this hoard were also exported to Russia between 641 and 668 A.D. Since there is no mention of these coins being used in the manufacture of jewellery, we may presume that they were intended for commercial purposes, and perhaps the hoard was buried relatively quickly after it left the Empire."<--

http://numismatics.org/digitallibra...95/nnan29265

Thank you very much, the site was not noticed for the first time. The information is useful, because the coin was found near the Irdyn River (as far as I know, there was a Dnieper arm there before).