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Need-Help:-Medieval-Coin

Weight - 3.5 g

Diameter - 21.7 mm

The horse rider looks more like medieval coins, but could be also Roman. Any ideas?
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Not mediaeval, but ancient. The portrait is Roman, but the language on it is Greek - this is a Roman Provincial coin. Specifically, from the city of Julia (previously also known as Ipsus), in the province of Phrygia, under the magistracy of one Sergios Hephaistion during the reign of the emperor Nero. Here's a similar coin from an online auction. There's another one in the Wildwinds database: click the Julia page and click on the one coin listed there under emperor Nero.
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Should also add, your coin has one feature those other two examples lack: your coin is counterstamped. Provincial bronze coins were often counterstamped for reasons which remain largely obscure; perhaps to revalidate them under the reign of a new emperor, perhaps to monetize them in territories or circumstances far from the city of issue.
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@Sap, thanks a lot, it seems it is quite rare and interesting.
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