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Hi all, I bought this one about 15 years ago for a buck at a coin show and it's been knocking around in my "unknowns box" since then. Had no luck typing it in Plant which is where I usually start for unnown non-roman and non-byzantine ancients. Anyone have any ideas? It's a bit off center which doesn't help but it's in fairly good condition otherwise. Coin diameter is 10 mm. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks, John   |
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Pillar of the Community
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 I got nothing...  |
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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Interesting... I saw two coins similar to this pop up on ebay a few days ago, I too was not sure that they were. |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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10 mm Barbarous roughly based on Tetricus Got a few very strange minims myself loosely based on him. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Maybe Bosphorus (sp) ...my first thought...
Maybe India, Kajula...my second thought...
I am think east ..more so..now the more I look
I will work on this....
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The script is not Latin and not Greek- if its Greek its badly garbled.
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Pillar of the Community
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It's garbled Latin to my eyes.
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Maybe Bosphorus Good call, certainly worth a look, know nothing about Kajula sadly.  |
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Thanks everyone for the help!
Been puzzling on that one for a while. Barbarous radiate makes sense.
The writing is actually upside down, or looks like it is (the base of the letters is nearer the edge of the coin rather than the portrait).
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Posted 12/17/2012 6:30 pm
