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Byzantine ? Ae Coin For Identification, Please

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Base metal coin 29.75 to 32 mm diameter 11.29g



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This coin appears to be an overstruck or badly struck folles of Justin II and Sophia from the Constantinople mint, B officinae, regnal year 5 (569-570 AD) indicated by III.
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I think it is Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine Follis overstruck on a follis of Phocas


you can see ANNO on the right side of your first pic and the x's underneath
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That's possible, I was seeing two figures on the obverse, but upon a closer look it does look like it might be one figure. Phocas was such a hated emperor so a lot of his coins were overstruck with the new emperors bust.
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Thanks very much. I can see now that the ANNO on the upper image belongs to the understrike.

However, the writing that I can see on the overstrike to the left of the left-hand figure (the opposite side from ANNO) seems to say JVN(or R)NI. There seems to be a crude J on the top of the left-hand figure.

On the other side, I can see ANNO to the left, a big M, a B underneath, CON in the exergue, The right hand leg of the M might be an upside down you or the regnal year might be
II
II . Is that possible ? If it is, the left hand bottom I seems cruder than the rest.
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I think the legend looks the same as this one?

DD NN H....

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06/13/2016 11:13 pm
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Yes, thanks very much.
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