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It's a fairly common design, with lots of different types. Right now, I see 6 examples for sale on MA-Shops, and 11 on VCoins.

 

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Thanks @DonnaML, I checked it after seeing it in your post and I was glad it's not a big rarity. I will hunt it, it's one of my favorite parts in collecting

 

12 hours. I'm still not 100% on the identification of this but I think I'm as close as I'll get after looking at dozens on dozens of examples trying to narrow it down. This came as a freebie from a Russian metal detector.

Crimean Khanate
c. 1600-1650 AD
AR Akce | 0.25g | 9.5mm

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Next: Something you couldn't attribute for 6+ months despite trying

 

I usually ID coins quickly but I had to ask for help for that one, which stayed unidentified for two or three years. It was before in my father's small collection he had as a teen, and he had no clue what it was. I couldn't figure the obverse and the mark below the chi-rho.

Pentanummium of Maurice Tiberius struck in Carthage, 582-602AD.


Next : another coin with a chi-rho

 

next: Gratianus

 

Pics of it Cleaned and not cleaned

Gratian
378-383 AD.
Obv: DN GRATIA-NVS PF AVG, pearl
diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right.
Rev: CONCOR-DIA AVGGG, Roma, helmeted,
seated facing, head left, holding globe
and spear, the lower part of which is
hidden by robe, left leg bare.
Θ (Theta) in left field,
Mintmark ANTA, mint Antioch
AE3, 17mm, 2.16 grams
RIC IX Antioch 45a, rated scarce


NEXT: AE1 of Gratian

 

Gratian, AE 1 or AE 2, 24 mm 6.3 grams

 

What's next?

 

How about a coin before cleaning and after cleaning.

 

Louis the Pious, Carolingian Empire
AR denier
Obv: +HLVDOVVICVS IMP, legend around cross in circle
Rev: +VEN / ECIAS, legend in two lines
Mint: Venice
Date: 818-840 AD
Ref: MG 456v, MEC 789





Next theme: Venetian silver

 

Republic of Venice
c. Late 1200's to Early 1300's AD
AR Grosso clipped to the weight of a denaro | 1.07g

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Next: Another clipped coin

 

these should both weigh 1,62 gram.

next: another clipped coin

 

Either clipped or struck on a tight planchet?
AV Scudo d'oro ND Ferrara Mint
Alfonso II D'Este Duke of Ferrara 1559-97
NEXT: any badly crafted coin.

 

Badly crafted:




Next: more shoddy workmanship at the mint.

 

A nice overview here of various phases of Owls. Although it certainly qualifies as "shoddy workmanship at the mint", I like this coin for its careless strike and thick, mis-shapen flan:
Intermediate Style Owl tetradrachm (17.22g, 21x18.5x7mm), Athens, c. 287-263 BC, Sear 2547.

Next: masterfully minted

 

Constantius, Argenteus - Antioch mint, 8th officina, c. AD 296-297
CONSTANTIVS CAESAR, Laureate head of Constantius right
VIRTVS MILITVM, Campgate, *ANTH* at exergue
3.40 gr
Ref : Cohen #318, RCV # 13966 (1100)

Next : Antioch mint again

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next: another coin minted in Antioch

 

Aurelian and Vabalathus. Antioch mint, seventh officina.


Next: another secessionist empire or splinter state

 

Habbaris of Sindh, Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz (855-884 AD).
Habbaris were the generals of Abbasid caliphate who came to invade India, but stopped by the Pratihara kingdom, so they settled west of river Indus and started ruling that area independent of the Abbasids.
Next, a splinter state that became more successful than its 'mother' kingdom.

 

splinter state that became more successful than its mother kingdom USA Seated Liberty Dollar New Orleans Mint 1860 Obv Liberty seated right head left. Rv Eagle standing facing head left. Next coin For those who might feel that I am cheating same as above However If not Any ancient coin with an eagle