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Please help identify.   |
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Can't help but  to CCF. John1  |
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Edited by tdziemia
03/05/2021 08:19 am
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Gold of these series, if real, have clear labels on them. So if you found this in a lot unlabeled, it might not be real. And you can't do encrustation etc easily with these so the fakes look real enough.
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Hello, I dug up the coin personally, with a metal detector.
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Pillar of the Community
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WOW Arturxx that's amazing! When we metal detect here is the US we normally find bottle caps and nails with the occasional penny.
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The situation is almost the same, only there are more nails)
I was very lucky to find such a coin.
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The only thing I can find with that mint mark is Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine (DO 19; MIB 65; Sear 779) but that has a very different obverse die.
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That mustache of the fellow on the left is legendary.
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Wow! Incredible metal detector find. Has to be a once in a lifetime kind of discovery.  Check out my counterstamped Lincoln Cent collection: http://goccf.com/t/303507 |
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I imagine this site would be helpful: http://numismatics.org/digitallibra...95/nnan29265Weight of the coin? That helps a bit as well. There are probably about 100 mentions of "BOXX" with just a "control f" on the page of the above site and there is a lot to study there. |
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to the community Very nice find, it is Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine. |
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 same like this one, I think the Byzantines made these lightweight solidii coins for payments outside of the Empire. Edited by arnoldoe
03/05/2021 8:06 pm
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The obverse is like Sear types 749, 751, 753 with the figures about the same size and at the same level, and Heraclius (left) with a long beard.
But the reverse mint mark is like Sear 779.
A mystery ...
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03/05/2021 11:14 pm
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Honestly the second head being as large is not almost larger than the first is the oddest part to me. For these two gentlemen that is.
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Posted 03/05/2021 08:08 am
