please,help!!!

guys, please help me to identify this byzantine bronze coin, follis..l'm totaly lost on byzantine issue..thanks....

 

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Are you sure it's not some sort of medal or ancient trinket? Never seen anything like that.

 

fellow MD find this bronze coin few days ago..l can tell him to make better photos..no idea..

 

Silver Miliaresion of BASIL II and CONSTANTINE VIII
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=209994
Your reverse is upside down.

 

It looks like this exact coin here--
https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=2537&lot=783




Estimate: 60 GBP
Price realized: 130 GBP

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII, AR Miliaresion. Constantinople, AD 977-989. Єh TOVTѠ hICAT' bASILЄI C CѠhST, cross crosslet with central X set globus on four steps, between crowned facing busts of Basil and Constantine / +bASIL C CѠhSTAh ΠORFVROS ΠISTV bAS RѠmAIѠ in five lines. DOC 18; Sear 1811. 2.64g, 29mm, 12h.

Good Very Fine.

 

Same scratches and same damage. Very suspicious. What are the odds of two identical coins like that.

 

Pretty good if it's the same coin

 

It's clearly the same coin. Something weird going on here...

 

some fellow MD guys have no shame to offer me fake coins..like l said, lm lost with byzantine coins..but thanks to you guys, l got out on time..

 

I feel bad for the dude that paid $130 at that auction for one of these.

 

I don't know that it's necessarily a fake. It looks like the exact same coin that was sold in that auction, toned spots and everything. They're definitely the same physical item. Whether or not the auction coin is fake, I dunno, I don't collect these types.

 

sallent, l think that one from auction is genuine..somebody made copy of that one in bronze..like this one offered to me..

 

Are you sure it is bronze? It looks silver in your photos. It does not appear to be a copy of the coin shown by arnoldoe... it appears to be the same coin.

 

I don't think that's a copy of the coin from the auction. It is the coin from the auction and it looks 100% genuine. They are the same coin. Maybe your friend lied about finding it in the ground and was actually the one who bought it on that link? Or they could have found it detecting and sold it already for 130 GBP?

Either way, that's the same exact coin from the auction...

 

USCC42, he told me this is a bronze coin, nearly 8 grams..thats why l was completely confused..so, coin from the auction is definitely genuine..l have to be careful , in any case..thank you very much guys..

 

Did he send the wrong photo? It is clearly silver and not 8 grams. It is the coin @arnoldoe found which was sold in May.