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 Posted 12/06/2025  7:25 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add louisvillekyshop to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
23 mm, 3.70 grams. Old tag is obviously not correct. They had no internet etc. From an old collection I am going through with most coins listed at $3 to $5 back in the day which is fun. But this one I want help on if you folks would be so kind.


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 Posted 12/06/2025  8:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jecz79 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
If I had to make up something I would have written byzantine 40 nummi of the sixth century, cut and corroded.
But I do not think it is that. It would be smaller. The remains looking like an M is an accident.
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@lou, just spitballing here, but I wonder if this wasn't originally from The Elymais Kingdom. As you likely know, the copper Drachmae sometimes (e.g. Orodes III) have a frizzy-haired, front-facing bust with an anchor to the right. The reverse is a just a series of peck marks. Something like this:

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=12088459

Of course, this one would have been sanded down from roughly circular to this interesting triangular shape. I'm hoping someone else will weigh in with a better answer because I have pretty low confidence that I'm correct.

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 Posted 12/07/2025  11:38 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ancient67 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
In any case, it is not 5000 years old. the guy who wrote this is a joker!
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Pretty good spitballing ... I'll be surprised if a better ossibility comes in.
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Very interesting!

Maybe they were using then mercurial year?
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