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rooneydog Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 739 Posts	Posted 01/05/2013 09:11 am Hi, thanks for all help. Length 19mm width 15mm weight 1.71gm Edited by rooneydog 01/05/2013 4:17 pm Report this Post to the Staff

Gil-galad Pillar of the Community United States 2044 Posts	Posted 01/05/2013 09:16 am That looks like a barbarous radiate imitative copy of a Roman Imperial coin of the 3rd century. A great deal of them are said to copy Tetricus I. Report this Post to the Staff
Gil-galad Pillar of the Community United States 2044 Posts	Posted 01/05/2013 09:18 am I do like the crude style of the coin. Nice coin, btw. Yeah, it could also be copying Tetricus II. Who knows. Report this Post to the Staff
bobbyhelmet Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2838 Posts	Posted 01/05/2013 09:39 am A barbarous based on Tetricus, I can see what looks like 'HICVS AVG' remaining on the obverse. Very odd in that it has what appears to be a 'J' in the text on the reverse. Tried to work out what the reverse is based on but not had any luck, it has a strange triangular item on it I don't recognise. Value wise about the same as the real thing, £5-10 in an auction on ebay. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarous_radiate Report this Post to the Staff
rooneydog Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 739 Posts	Posted 01/05/2013 10:03 am Thanks guys, I can't even read the text with my Loupe or with the 2.5MB photo blown up on my screen. Have looked at Tetricus on wildwinds and can see where you are coming from. I thought the reverse was a mountain with some sort of tower on it at first but when viewed at one angle I think it is a person holding a standard - does that make sense ? Report this Post to the Staff
bobbyhelmet Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2838 Posts	Posted 01/05/2013 10:24 am Difficult to tell, may not even be based on a known coin: http://www.gallic-empire.com/tetric...complete.htm Edited by bobbyhelmet 01/05/2013 10:24 am Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 01/05/2013 1:30 pm Interesting shape. Report this Post to the Staff
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