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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Plumbata, post: 3524438, member: 96864&quot;]These 2 coins were among 5 purchased as &quot;unidentified&quot;, and while the others were easy to ID, after they arrived yesterday I spent all evening puzzling over the (presumptive) Vespasian without success, finding no matches on Wildwinds or via Google-searching with different small portions of the Greek legend on the reverse. </p><p><br /></p><p>Vespasian Provincial, 19mm 4.63g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]936149[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]936150[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>On obverse, from top of head down the left side it appears to read &quot;ΟΥΕΣΠΑΣΙΑΝΟΝ&quot; then continuing up the right side &quot;KAIC.........IAIEIΣ&quot; (or ...IΔIEIΣ or ...IΛIEIΣ)</p><p><br /></p><p>On reverse, which seems more complete, It appears to read, clockwise from 6:30 to the left of the figure&#039;s feet &quot;ΟΣΦΙΛΟΠ ΑΤΡΙ ΕΠ[?]ΚΟΛΡΕΤΙΔ&quot; and I figure it &#039;s supposed to read more like &quot;ΦΙΛΟΠΑΤΡΙ ΕΠ[?]ΚΟΛΡΕΤΙΔΟΣ&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Any insights or ideas would be greatly appreciated!</p><p><br /></p><p>The 30mm, 17.67g barbarous follis is a different sort of mystery in that I never fully expected to have it perfectly pinned down. I can&#039;t tell if the legend is pure gibberish, an attempt at copying the legend on Anastasius&#039; coinage, or something else entirely. I also can&#039;t tell if it is a Germanic migration period imitation or Arab imitation, though I paid pretty decent money for it assuming it was a Germanic imitation of an Anastasius follis (and because it was super-extra-barbarous in its delightful duck-lipped appearance). If anyone has seen anything similar or has insights about who made it I&#039;d be very interested to know, as I searched the internet at large as well as completed auction databases and saw nothing quite like it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]936152[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]936153[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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