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Small And In Bad Shape - Late Roman?

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This might be difficult but hopefully enough detail remains for an ID to be found.

I had thought this coin was barbarous but now I'm not too sure, after a bit of cleaning I think the eagle / bird on the reverse is too realistic and I was wondering if the coin was perhaps late Roman or even something else altogether

Small-And-In-Bad-Shape---Late-Roman?


The obverse is a goner unfortunately, the reverse seems to have 'PO' and 'OL' on it - as its so small I've tried to pick the details out on the below picture though I seem to have made a mess of its head

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The coin is 9mm and 0.65 grams - any advice or pointers welcome.
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04/26/2012 4:23 pm
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 Posted 04/26/2012  4:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I can see the eagle, so I agree that it's probably Roman. But beyond that I have no idea who it could be.
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The eagle does not look Roman and the letters are too large but I can't ID it to a Greek city either.
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I know this is an old post, but I ran across this today and it reminded me of bobbyhelmets' coin.

Some similarities, size & weight, eagle reverse........, but no cigar.

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Segusiaves, Eduens.

link to where I saw it
http://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/bes...Default.aspx

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The eagle is very reminiscent of some on coins struck by Perseus of Macedon...but I don't know if he issued such a small AE denomination. Tough one with no obverse to go by...
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i think BL is on it, this looks pretty similar...

http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1872578
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Good work all!

I still have this grotty little spec of a coin and now a couple of new leads to follow, both are closer than I managed to get last time I searched.

I'll let you know if I find anything over the weekend.
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