Hard to tell from the pic, but is it a Rome mint mark? Because that would give it some interest on account of scarcity.
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I can't read the mintmark and don't find the style immediately obvious. It is so thin and flat, I would look for a match in coins in the AE3 range.
RIC cites it as common, most examples coming from the BM. These are at the tail end of the FH emission.
Small, flat, low grade and common. What more could a coin collector want. I would imagine this coin has a lot of detail on t he obverse. There is a relatively large smooth depression on the reverse where the metal was sucked in to the obverse. Had all the material on the outside of the beaded boarder been included inside the coin would look very different.
These were followed by the even smaller, crappier SPES REIPVBLICE types. Most of those are in the same condition as your FH, or worse. Finding a decent one from any mint takes a bit of hunting. Finding a decent one from Rome would take quite a bit more hunting.
Yea. I couldn't even tell you where I got this. This one I cleaned up a couple years ago. It might have been in a lot I got.
