Recycled meaning it was first used in the time it was struck but reused again after, say, a century or more.
I'll start. Several of you know about my coin already but for those that dont, this As of Roman emperor Domitian was struck from 73 to 74 AD. It later got lost and was rediscovered sometime in the late 5th to early 6th century, around 400 years later, by which time the Roman Empire had fallen in the west and Italy was under the rule of the Ostrogoths. To conform to the silver nummi denominations then in use, this and other old Imperial bronzes were redenominated into fractionals of the silver coinage. Asses like this one were turned into 42 nummi, as indicated by the XLII added to the left of Domitian's bust on my coin.
Domitian, Roman Empire (revalued under the
Ostrogothic Kingdom)
AE As/42 nummi
Obv: CAESAR AVG F DOMITIAN COS II, laureate head left, countermark XLII (42 nummi) in left field
Rev: VICTORIA AVGVST, Victory advancing right, standing on prow, holding wreath and palm branch, S-C across fields
Mint: Rome (struck 73-74 AD; revalued 498-526 AD)
Ref: RIC 677
Posted 02/19/2015 11:04 pm
