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Drdave the first 2 coins I think they are byzantine follis but I can´t tell a lot more about them.
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Just a question, how did you clean them? Olive oil? Chemicals?
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I did not clean them. This is how I found them in a jar full of these coins. As I stated in an earlier post, it looks like there is some protective coating on them, which makes them slick and shiny. I don't like the coating, but I understand some people protected coins like this in the past (and perhaps some still do.)
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The large M indicates that the coin was tarriffed at 40 nummia - and as stated it is Byzantine. The next one is Roman - possibly with the three graces on the reverse - but other than that I think it will be hard to identify.
The modern coin is an Ottoman 5 para dated 1255 - (with possibly 25 as the regnal year) that has been counterstamped - I don't recognise it but I do know that places like the Yemen and surrounding small states counterstamped coins for local use.
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#1: Byzantine, emperor Justin II with empress Sophia, Year 10 (574-575 AD), mint Antioch, officina gamma.
#2: as above, I think, but Year 3, mint unknown, officina epsilon.
#3: an excellent demonstration of the damage that electrolysis can do to a coin. This is what we talk about when we say that electrolysis can create a "moonscape".
#4: not ancient. This is a bronze coin (if you tell us how big it is, we can tell you the denomination - someone's smashed the original denomination mark away) of the Ottoman Empire, dated accession 1255 regnal year 17, which converts to AH 1271 or AD 1854-1855.
#5: a Roman Provincial; the obverse inscription is in Greek, not Latin. Unfortunately, I can't really identify much else about it.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Bacchus2 & Sap - you guys are amazing! How long did it take you to learn all this stuff? You must enjoy it.
For coin #4, it's about 1.2 inches in diameter and weighs about one half-ounce.
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I assume "1.2 inches" is about 31mm (sorry, we don't have "decimal inches" rulers in this country  ), which would make it a 20 para coin. I'm not sure what the counterstamp that's obliterated the denomination is supposed to say - I can't even tell which way is up. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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