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Message:: [QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4872103, member: 110504"][USER=81887]@Parthicus[/USER], that type was three or four of my first.  (...Argh, No pictures readily findable.)  Munro-Hay distinguishes two variants of this: the originals (Type 52), distinguished by "...well-executed royal busts and finer lettering, or with a second border of the broad type noted for coins of Ezana, and conceivably the earlierst issues date to his reign" (p. 142).  (Type 51 "is a 'miniature' or copy version of the Type 52 issue, recorded from finds in Egypt and other places," with "flans that are small and thin."  Munro-Hay goes on to cite Hahn, citing a numismatist of from the 1920's, asserting that these were "made in the Roman Empire to serve as small change, [...] us[ing] the term 'hacienda tokens'" (ibid.).  On a no less irreducibly speculaive level, it might be more attractive to look to the emerging Christian kingdoms of Nubia (northern Sudan) over the 5th and later centuries.  Certainly, the imitative ones bear no resemblance to the level of blundering found in 'barbarous' radiates and LRBs.)The good news (if you weren't here already) is that your example looks to be the earlier, Type 52 variety, primarily thanks to traces of the double border.[/QUOTE]