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<p>[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 3838925, member: 80783"]You are right, but RIC 598 always has a right facing obverse, while Nr.4 and the similar barbaric pieces with COS III always have the obverse facing left.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a double die match to coin Nr.4, and from the same obverse die as the OP coin. LEU Numismatic agrees it is barbaric:</p><p><br /></p><p>Nr.5 (Gold, 5,35 gr, 12 h):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1019194[/ATTACH]</p><p><i>"UNCERTAIN GERMANIC TRIBES, Pseudo-Imperial coinage. Late 3rd-early 4th centuries, imitating Maximianus, Cf. Calicó 4634 (with COS II) and 4635 (COS III but head to right) for prototype. This is a very early imitation, with a finely engraved portrait and perfectly readable legends."</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Here is an original of the type with head to left (note COS II and the fact that it is from a different obverse die than coins Nr. 1-5):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1019204[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p>That is exactly what is puzzeling me. The barbarians certainly did like their Tetrarchic portraits to face left and used a relatively small emission from Cyzicus that was struck in ca. 293 AD as model for what looks like a mass production of left facing Aurei of Maximian, and, on a smaller scale, of Diocletian.</p><p><br /></p><p>But how did they come into the posession of an original Roman obverse die???</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, that would indeed sound like the only plausible explanation![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 3838925, member: 80783"]You are right, but RIC 598 always has a right facing obverse, while Nr.4 and the similar barbaric pieces with COS III always have the obverse facing left. Here is a double die match to coin Nr.4, and from the same obverse die as the OP coin. LEU Numismatic agrees it is barbaric: Nr.5 (Gold, 5,35 gr, 12 h): [ATTACH=full]1019194[/ATTACH] [I]"UNCERTAIN GERMANIC TRIBES, Pseudo-Imperial coinage. Late 3rd-early 4th centuries, imitating Maximianus, Cf. Calicó 4634 (with COS II) and 4635 (COS III but head to right) for prototype. This is a very early imitation, with a finely engraved portrait and perfectly readable legends." [/I] Here is an original of the type with head to left (note COS II and the fact that it is from a different obverse die than coins Nr. 1-5): [ATTACH=full]1019204[/ATTACH] That is exactly what is puzzeling me. The barbarians certainly did like their Tetrarchic portraits to face left and used a relatively small emission from Cyzicus that was struck in ca. 293 AD as model for what looks like a mass production of left facing Aurei of Maximian, and, on a smaller scale, of Diocletian. But how did they come into the posession of an original Roman obverse die??? Yes, that would indeed sound like the only plausible explanation![/QUOTE]
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