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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 7244439, member: 72790&quot;]The letters used remind me of the period when letters on early Byzantine coinage were transitioning from the Roman to Greek alphabet, say from late Sixth to Seventh centuries. In addition to the name Constantine, on the reverse i think I see the word hictoria which would be odd on a coin. The obverse does not look like the kind of surface I am used to seeing on coins of this period. It does not look like any Byzantine I am familiar with. If a semis it would be half of the gold solidus and the weight of 2.4 grams would be correct, if the metal is, indeed, gold. If it is genuine, it might be a western mint from North Africa, or Sicily or Italy still in Byzantine hands of the era I mentioned above It is possible that what looks like the Greek letter gamma on the reverse is a mint or control mark. Without having the coin in hand I could not venture much more than this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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