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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2490332, member: 26302&quot;]Actually the 3/4 facing was the original Byzantine gold coin they were imitating. This was common on late roman gold and early byzantine.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess point is, all of them look to me similar in that they were imitations of contemporary Byzantine gold in every way, just crude engraving and nonsensical legends. If these are accepted by the hobby as Central Asian, mine does not look far from the style. couple that with Mr. Markov&#039;s attribution as being Central Asian, and I am comfortable with the designation. Had it not been ex-Markov, I would need more research to raise my comfort more.</p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone has a similar coin attributed to somewhere else, I would love to see it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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