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<p>[QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 3988678, member: 97383"]Mike, Congratulations on your newly acquired hoard, especially the possible Salona - Ravenna follis of Justinian I <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />! Byzantine coinage is fertile ground for finds like the one you discovered. The hole on that coin appears so perfectly round on the obverse side you'd immediately suspect it was done by a drill of some kind. Maybe a soldier on that campaign drilled it himself as a keepsake but couldn't match both sides <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. It seems unlikely that a hole so round would be caused by porosity <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Or possibly it started out a small hole from porosity & the soldier decided to enlarge it for jewelry. Food for thought....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 3988678, member: 97383"]Mike, Congratulations on your newly acquired hoard, especially the possible Salona - Ravenna follis of Justinian I :D! Byzantine coinage is fertile ground for finds like the one you discovered. The hole on that coin appears so perfectly round on the obverse side you'd immediately suspect it was done by a drill of some kind. Maybe a soldier on that campaign drilled it himself as a keepsake but couldn't match both sides o_O. It seems unlikely that a hole so round would be caused by porosity :confused:. Or possibly it started out a small hole from porosity & the soldier decided to enlarge it for jewelry. Food for thought....[/QUOTE]
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