#2 - Help Identify This Byzantine (?) Coin, Please! "aisp" On One Side

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paralyse Bedrock of the Community United States 12057 Posts	Posted 07/11/2017 11:02 pm This one is more difficult than the other. One side appears to have a right-facing bust but the entire surface has a craquelure-type effect and has obliterated most of the details. There may be remains of some letters in the field to the right of the bust that look sort of like AV, and to the left, what looks like NIV. The other side has what appears to be a letter I with an A? to the left and "Sp" to the right; above which are three letters or symbols (?) In exergue are TESS, worn but visible, so I would think something minted in Thessalonica. The coin is shaped rather like a lemon with its two pointy ends! Weight is 6.4 grams; diameter at the widest "pointy" ends is 20mm and at the "roundest" 16.5mm. It appears to be copper, or bronze. Help appreciated as usual! Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis Report this Post to the Staff

Kamnaskires Pillar of the Community United States 7066 Posts	Posted 07/11/2017 11:05 pm Similar to: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1608805 http://munzeo.com/coin/justinian-nu...arce-5081273 http://www.dirtyoldbooks.com/gandin...1/jn1047.jpg Edited by Kamnaskires 07/11/2017 11:09 pm Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 07/11/2017 11:17 pm AE 16 nummi Sear 180 (var) with H above the I, looks like a star on either side. Report this Post to the Staff
paralyse Bedrock of the Community United States 12057 Posts	Posted 07/11/2017 11:19 pm The first one looks like a (much nicer) version of mine, but mine appears to have three letters or symbols above the AISP part, not just a cross above the I. 16 Nummi of Justinian I, says the link. Only problem when these get attributed is I tend to get lost in Wikipedia for a couple of hours reading about the emperors on the coins...I started looking at Arcadius last night and ended up somehow jumping around all the way to Yazdegerd III. They don't teach this stuff in school (at least not when I was in school) and the "oldest" subject I got to take in college was Medieval European History so it's kind of fascinating to go back and read about all of this history that I never really knew about. I guess tonight when I get ready for bed I can read up on Justinian I. Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis Report this Post to the Staff
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#2 - Help Identify This Byzantine (?) Coin, Please! "Aisp" On One Side