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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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Leo VI? It definitely looks Byzantine in style, I know it isn't letter-denominated or scyphate which almost certainly narrows it down to between 7th and 12th centuries and... I don't really know enough to guess past that. The non-bust side certainly looks ancient enough that I probably would've called it 3rd century BC if not for the obviously Christian bust  Chances are, the answer will turn out to be "Arab-Byzantine". |
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Pillar of the Community
Italy
1790 Posts |
Was it manufactured in post Roman Italy ?
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Pillar of the Community
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1. It is non-Byzantine, so would rather fall into the category of imitative coinage
2. While Arab-Byzantine was recently posted, it's not that either.
3. It falls into the time-frame stated by 'january1may' - towards the end of it.
4. And it is not from Italy either.
One other hint will be implied by a later posting today.
Note: My apologies for calling it easy, will reveal the reason for doing so as well.
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Pillar of the Community
Italy
1790 Posts |
Armenia King Kurike II . That is my final guess.  |
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Pillar of the Community
3772 Posts |
Would love to have a coin of him, but have none from him or his dynasty.
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Pillar of the Community
Italy
1790 Posts |
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Pillar of the Community
3772 Posts |
Quote:
One other hint will be implied by a later posting today. Done.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4966 Posts |
how about a trebizond coin? I'm not familiar with their coins, but looking at wildwinds...it could be a theodore gabras or so?
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Pillar of the Community
3772 Posts |
Glad that I raised curiosity.  Not Trebizond, but the ruler under whom the coin was minted was a contemporary of Theodore Gabras. |
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Pillar of the Community
3772 Posts |
Final hint:
My reason for calling it 'easy' was that I posted a closely related coin less than 48 hours before making this topic.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4966 Posts |
i surrender.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3253 Posts |
How about a Crusader imitative, like this Baldwin II follis of Christ, from Edessa?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5155 Posts |
That Baldwin II is a good guess. I was thinking maybe the coin was Hungarian in manufacture.
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Moderator
 United States
23731 Posts |
Now that's one I never thought of, it sure does look like it. Phil I bet your right on this one.
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Pillar of the Community
3772 Posts |
Let's finish it off.
Crusader is right. But from Roger of Salerno in Antioch.
Since I posted CCS(94)#8 over CCS(94)#7 under 'R', I thought someone would remember.
The coin in the op is the undertype, namely:
AE Follis from Roger of Salerno, Regent 1112-1119 of the Principality of Antioch.
Obverse: Christ standing facing
Reverse: Cross, in the quarters DNE SAL / FT RO
As a final note, yes the coin is CCS(94)#7 but it was also struck over CCS(94)#5, a coin from Tancred (another one of whose I posted under T).
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