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<p>[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 3836529, member: 80783"]If the OP coin is indeed an original, it must have ended up in the hands of the Goths who not only added a loop and smoothed the reverse down by wearing it with the portrait side up, but who also for whatever reason must have added what looks like an extra pair of legs underneath the Victoria (a detail that was tooled away after registrating the find but before selling it via Obolos).</p><p><br /></p><p>Then would this make coin Nr.4 also an original? It has what looks like the same obverse die again, but coupled with a clearly barbarous reverse (the original should read COS II and not COS III).</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are more specimens from a similar (if not the same) obverse die, but coupled with dubious reverses:</p><p><a href="http://barbarous-imitations.narod.ru/index/1_215/0-326" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://barbarous-imitations.narod.ru/index/1_215/0-326" rel="nofollow">http://barbarous-imitations.narod.ru/index/1_215/0-326</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Most of these must have been struck by the barbarians with what looks like an obverse die of the Cyzicus mint or an exact copy of it! How is this technically possible considering the crude style of other imitations?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Click on the bottom left line and a window will open that will show you the first 18 of 379 imitative Aurei of the Chernyakov culture. You con look at the others if you click the respective numbers in the bottom line of that page. Click the last line under any coin to see more specimens of the respective type. I use Google translator for the Russian <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 3836529, member: 80783"]If the OP coin is indeed an original, it must have ended up in the hands of the Goths who not only added a loop and smoothed the reverse down by wearing it with the portrait side up, but who also for whatever reason must have added what looks like an extra pair of legs underneath the Victoria (a detail that was tooled away after registrating the find but before selling it via Obolos). Then would this make coin Nr.4 also an original? It has what looks like the same obverse die again, but coupled with a clearly barbarous reverse (the original should read COS II and not COS III). Here are more specimens from a similar (if not the same) obverse die, but coupled with dubious reverses: [URL]http://barbarous-imitations.narod.ru/index/1_215/0-326[/URL] Most of these must have been struck by the barbarians with what looks like an obverse die of the Cyzicus mint or an exact copy of it! How is this technically possible considering the crude style of other imitations? Click on the bottom left line and a window will open that will show you the first 18 of 379 imitative Aurei of the Chernyakov culture. You con look at the others if you click the respective numbers in the bottom line of that page. Click the last line under any coin to see more specimens of the respective type. I use Google translator for the Russian :)[/QUOTE]
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