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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValiantKnight, post: 1853022, member: 44210&quot;]Bought a lot of lower-grade Byzantines. They didn&#039;t look anything special and I would have passed them by had this not been among them. It looks like a normal late Roman AE4 but I think this could possibly be the rare usurper Johannes. Evidence being what looks to be a beard (he had one on his coins) and more importantly, a possible E on the upper right hand side of the obverse (Johannes name usually had a break before the E).&nbsp; His bronze issues were the Victory dragging captive type, also struck in the name of Theodosius II at the same mint, Rome, in the same time frame, which is the cause of the my wondering who this is. It doesn&#039;t help that Honorius produced a similar AE type just before he kicked the bucket. It doesn&#039;t help either that the seller didn&#039;t have reverse photos of the coins including this one (perhaps not one of my best bidding decisions?).</p><p><br /></p><p>I already have Johannes but couldn&#039;t pass possibly getting one for much lower than he usually goes for. If it is him I&#039;ll probably keep the better looking one of the two and sell the other.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the original seller&#039;s photo:</p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/Joh2_zpsb4130610.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my edited version of the seller&#039;s photo to highlight the details I am referring to:</p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/Joh_zps63bce5df.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A clear as day Johannes from WW:</p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/RIC1913_zpsc42d7b06.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A Theo II (from VCoins):</p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/TheoII_zps5b54bedb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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