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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eyestrain, post: 1167437, member: 24213&quot;]The hole you&#039;re referring to (and there&#039;s another at the lower right edge of the officina E) could have been caused by anything over the years. It&#039;s not a casting bubble. Byzantine coinage was always pretty rough, even fresh from the mint. Add years of daily use and abuse to that, and you end up with some very messy specimens. I have some with indications of a very storied history, which is actually my reason for owning them. Since very few coins in the thousand years of Byzantine history are particularly nice to look at, I will happily buy ones with interesting overstrikes, graffiti, and other damage.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, your coin is quite nice compared to most, and I see no reason to doubt it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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