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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2452250, member: 44316&quot;]The devastation of Antioch resulted in severe mint disruption as explained above and on the website I mentioned above. </p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/interesting/Justinian.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/interesting/Justinian.html" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/interesting/Justinian.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;Persian&quot; explanation above seems quite plausible. I pay attention and have not seen another coin like that, so, if intentional, the issue was small. The possibility that the coin is simply an ancient imitation &quot;mule&quot; is supported by the unusually crude lettering &quot;DN ANASTASIVS&quot; but opposed by the completely normal quality of the reverse, including its mintmark lettering, and the portrait (which while not well done, is similar to most Byzantine coins of the period). </p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose, as proposed above, it is possible that this coin was issued by the mint, or at least mint workers, with an obverse legend that names a previous emperor (and &quot;IVSTINVS&quot; for Justin does not work well because it looks a lot like &quot;IVSTINIANVS&quot;) to intentionally avoid naming the current emperor while otherwise meeting the conventions for acceptable currency.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Brian, you have a very interesting coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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