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An oddball from that Stack's mixed lot of Greeks, Romans, and Byzantines I recently bought. No idea what it is. Do any of you recognize it? Medieval? Early modern? ~29 mm, 13.9 gm  Looks like the legend is A M A R Ç I R [or V attached to R?] A D _____ (no idea which is the starting letter) Edited by ThisIsFun
01/11/2014 5:11 pm
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Not anything I've ever seen.
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Pillar of the Community
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I tried variations of the letters and came up with a reference to Occitan, spoken from the 10th century in France, Italy in Spain. Don't suppose that helps much.
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Can you tell what it's made of? The style, the fact that it seems to be uniface and what may be a thread channel, I suspect it may be a seal, though it does not appear to be made of lead.
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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A seal? Never thought of that Sap!
I see what appears to be bronze disease, most of what appears stabalized. My guess is it is bronze or copper.
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Pillar of the Community
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It does look seal-ish. The metal is bronze though.
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very strange... I like saps seal idea.
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The word I'm seeing is AMARGVRA ("bitterness, sorrow"), or even AMARGVRADA (the adjective "embittered" modifying a feminine noun), from Spanish, Portuguese, or some Iberian dialect.
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...AMARGVRADA (the adjective "embittered" modifying a feminine noun), from Spanish, Portuguese, or some Iberian dialect. It was meant for me then! My own personal token commemorating recent bidding failures  Edited by ThisIsFun
01/12/2014 12:07 pm
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Posted 01/11/2014 5:56 pm
