4 Anonymous Byzantine Coins with Nimbate facing bust of Christ

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  1. rrdenarius

    rrdenarius non omnibus dormio Supporter

    My wife and I made another yarn and coin trip today. This one was to the other side of Houston, about 50 miles. I was not expecting to find much after our trip to the NYINC last week, but ... I did see an interesting tray of anonymous follis (someone please clue me into the correct plural for follis). They were offered by a dealer who often has a tray or two of ancient coins, but seldom coins I want. Today he had two interesting trays, one with the coins below and a second with hammered 8 reals. I went for the Byzantine ones. Some of them almost had noses.
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    PS - how many of you know the definition of nimbate? I forgot and had to look up the answer.
    "Nimb" is an obsolete form of the noun, but not a verb, except that the obsolete "nimbated", like the commoner "nimbate", means "furnished with a nimbus". It is sometimes preferred by art-historians, as sounding more technical than halo.
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  3. dougsmit

    dougsmit Member

    folles
     
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  4. chrsmat71

    chrsmat71 I LIKE TURTLES!

    i like that top right messy double/over struck coin!
     
  5. randygeki

    randygeki Coin Collector

  6. Severus Alexander

    Severus Alexander find me at NumisForums

    It's fun trying to find decent examples of these. My fav (Basil II, Class A2) :

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  7. stevex6

    stevex6 Random Mayhem

    Sweet!! ... congrats rrdenarius, you nailed a couple of OP-winners!!

    :rolleyes::rolleyes:

    I am always a bit jealous when I hear tales of folks attending actual "live shows" ... must be kinda cool?

    Oh, sorry => Sev-Alex => man, that's a great example (sweet snout credit)

    Ummm, I have a couple of nimbate-examples (but you're correct => snouts are hard to come-by!!)


    :rolleyes:

    Byzantine Anonymous AE Follis Class G.JPG Nicephorus II Phocas Fourree.jpg

    Anonymous Folles basil II & Constantine VIII Krist.jpg
     
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  8. physics-fan3.14

    physics-fan3.14 You got any more of them.... prooflikes?

    It is funny how crude a lot of these Byzantine pieces are, but I guess they have their own sort of charm.

    Steve, is that middle one gilt?
     
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  9. stevex6

    stevex6 Random Mayhem

    It's a gold fourree ... super cool, eh?

    => I refer to it as "Zombie Jesus"


    :rolleyes:
     
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