Not exactly Round ...

Nice sestertii Roman Collector!

 

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yes, you got it...it's a chach coin.

 

Something about this.. I can't stop looking at it, it's so awesome!

 

Umm... okay... I guess these count...

 

It is transitional. Note the three separate tail feathers which show much better on tetradrachms but those always seem too round for this thread. Compare:
https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=108140
Obols seem a lot more rare than tetradrachms.

 

Under the Byzantine empire the emperor Justinian (527-565) made some very large diameter copper coins, 40 mm and up in the reform of 538 and then with declining diameters throughout the rest of his reign and the next reigns. By the time of Justinian II (685-695 and 705-711) the coins were enough smaller that old big ones were being cut into quarters to serve as flans.



Sear 1262. Justinian II, first reign (The story of how he managed to have two reigns is fascinating). Look at the shape and you can see how it is a piece of a larger coin chisel-cut into four quarters.

 

Awesome odd shaped coins everyone.

Doug

 

What we need now is someone to post the other two quarters to assemble our pie. I find it interesting that both our coins show the reverse as upper right quarters but the obverses were opposites. I really would like a Constantine IV large follis of the type that provided these flans but I suspect most of them were cut.

 

I've got a couple of odd ones - both Ancient and medieval



Okay, so both English coins (6&8) are a result of damage, but still really odd looking.

 

A couple of Carausius