Part of a Roma lot is this random medieval (or I would assume) coin. With pretty much no visible lettering and only crosses visible on both sides, I have nothing to start with! It appears to have the exact same design on both sides, with a cross in the middle, pellets on two sides, and what appears to be "O" and "X" as possible letters, but maybe they're design elements. ~20mm, 4.2g
It's struck with the same design on both sides: a cross with pellets at each extremity with IC - XC NI - KA in the quarters. Presumed to be from Antioch during the stewardship of Tancred because the design resembles on of Tancred's AE types. These pop up from time to time at auctions. Similar: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5159390
AMazing! I would have never been able to find that. "Coin with cross and pellets" would have taken forever to nail down.
Nice little extra in your lot! I have been trying to track one of these down for a reasonable price (I either get outbid, or they show up at auction with a group I refuse to do business with...). What else was in the lot?
The lot was pretty solid, $12.50 per coin for 10 coins. Included a variety of nice coins, such as: Augustus & Agrippa crocodile dupondius Judean prutah of some sort Septimius Severus coin fro Parlais Antoninus Pius Mount Argaeus Adramyteion Zeus and bird And a few I'm still working on
This is from Judaea, Hasmoneans. John I Hyrkanos Æ Prutah. Jerusalem, 132-130 BC. https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2302352 - Broucheion
Wow, thanks so much! Those are so hard for me to attempt to find since I can't read any of the text, and "prutah" gives a bajillion examples.
