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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 2950681, member: 74834&quot;]There is a very instructive article by Pierre Bastin <i>&#039;Imitations of Late Roman Bronzes 318-363&#039;</i>, in <i>Museum Notes</i> 30 (journal of the American Numismatic Society), New York, 1985, p. 143-177 with 58 photographic plates in the rear. My copy is a photographic reprint (?) obtained cheaply in the USA. (There are several other interesting articles in this issue, about Maxentian hoards, about pseudo-autonomous Provincial Roman issues and about Kushano-Sasanian coinage).</p><p><br /></p><p>Bastin deals with many aspects and ascertains many questions still unanswered. A few Urbs Roma imitations are depicted (pl. 16-19), the OP coin is much like pl. 19. Ed Snible&#039;s Helena/Fausta &amp; Wolf is not in the article. Bastin estimates the date of the Urbs Roma coins as earliest: end of Constantine the Great&#039;s reign and latest: 342-348. </p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=85496]@MontCollector[/USER], could you tell where this coin may come from - France, Britain, Austria, Eastern Europe for instance? Official Roman coins may be found anywhere, but the unofficial imitations like this rarely stray far from where they were manufactured, for they had no value outside a local region.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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