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Is this genuine ?

I tend to think not, but I am no expert.

It's about an 1" in width and weighs 9.5 grams.


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Reverse

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  • ormandhormandh Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭
    The links do not work for me. Can you try them again?
  • bronzematbronzemat Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Typical photobucket, dont know why folks here use them when there is sites like tinypic.com

    Links arent working for me either.
  • levinlllevinll Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭
    Links should be working now.
  • brg5658brg5658 Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Typical photobucket, dont know why folks here use them when there is sites like tinypic.com

    Links arent working for me either. >>



    Tinypic is owned by photobucket.
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  • STLNATSSTLNATS Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭
    Weight looks right and the style, etc of the coin looks like a typical Trier product.

    Why do you think there's an issue with this follis?

    Always interested in St Louis MO & IL metro area and Evansville IN national bank notes and Vatican/papal states coins and medals!
  • levinlllevinll Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭
    Not knowing much about ancients, the face looks like something I'd see on a hobo nickel as opposed to a 2,000 year old coin.

    Any idea what time period/ruler is on this coin ?
  • STLNATSSTLNATS Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭
    Not knowing much about ancients, the face looks like something I'd see on a hobo nickel as opposed to a 2,000 year old coin

    Not sure I see what you're talking about. Pretty common portrait for the period and the mint (each Roman mint had its own personality so often you can recognize the mint from the portraits alone). The Trier mintmark is in exergue on the reverse.

    Coin is of Maximian, co-ruler with Diocletian. Not near my reference at the moment, but struck in Trier in the late 290s AD.

    Always interested in St Louis MO & IL metro area and Evansville IN national bank notes and Vatican/papal states coins and medals!
  • levinlllevinll Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭
    Thanks !
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