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<p>[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3658460, member: 98035"]I've alluded to these two coins several times, but just got around to imaging them.</p><p><br /></p><p>About a year ago I bought a large job lot of "minim" sized late Roman / Vandal / Early Byzantine AE4 nummi from CNG. By my reckoning, they were all from the same hoard - same green patina, logical grouping, all from the time period of Arcadius through Justinian's conquest of Vandal Africa - about 200 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were, however, two significant outliers</p><p><br /></p><p>Barbarous Divo Claudius II / Altar, usually attributed to early or mid 270s</p><p><br /></p><p>If it was legitimately part of the hoard, it would have been about 350 years old</p><p>[ATTACH=full]983436[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Size was about right though</p><p>[ATTACH=full]983437[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And even more strange:</p><p>Pamphylia. Aspendos AE11</p><p>2nd/3rd century BC</p><p>ΠO monogram on shield</p><p>Triskeles</p><p>Would have been about 600-800 years old</p><p>[ATTACH=full]983438[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>That got me curious - just like if I buried a sealed box of nickels, there would be odd outliers like Buffalo and maybe V nickels, I am sure that most periods of antiquity saw much older coins circulate alongside new ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone have examples to share, or links to hoard studies?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3658460, member: 98035"]I've alluded to these two coins several times, but just got around to imaging them. About a year ago I bought a large job lot of "minim" sized late Roman / Vandal / Early Byzantine AE4 nummi from CNG. By my reckoning, they were all from the same hoard - same green patina, logical grouping, all from the time period of Arcadius through Justinian's conquest of Vandal Africa - about 200 years. There were, however, two significant outliers Barbarous Divo Claudius II / Altar, usually attributed to early or mid 270s If it was legitimately part of the hoard, it would have been about 350 years old [ATTACH=full]983436[/ATTACH] Size was about right though [ATTACH=full]983437[/ATTACH] And even more strange: Pamphylia. Aspendos AE11 2nd/3rd century BC ΠO monogram on shield Triskeles Would have been about 600-800 years old [ATTACH=full]983438[/ATTACH] That got me curious - just like if I buried a sealed box of nickels, there would be odd outliers like Buffalo and maybe V nickels, I am sure that most periods of antiquity saw much older coins circulate alongside new ones. Anyone have examples to share, or links to hoard studies?[/QUOTE]
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