I had the opportunity to look through some unsorted coins my archaeology professor has (we are planning to catalogue some of them in the future) earlier today, and found this unusual coin. It appears to be a Vesta As of Caligula, and aside from the ragged edge is about the right diameter for the type. While corrosion might account for the ragged edge, what it doesn’t account for is the thinness and weight. While the design doesn’t look imitative to me, it is incredibly thin - think of a sheet of tin, or even a piece of thick paper. The face is still somehow of almost normal relief. Although I didn’t get to weigh it, it is clearly very underweight for the type. It isn’t at all something I would expect to see coming from the Rome mint in the first century. Has anyone ran into anything like this? Apologies for the potato photo, best I could do on the fly.
i've seen one similar to that before for sale, same type of reverse, but idk anything other than i couldn't find any listed like it anywhere else..
