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<p>[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 7421163, member: 75525"]Roman coins were around a while. I think [USER=10613]@Victor_Clark[/USER] is right, they would be smooth if in continuous circulation. Some coins were repurposed:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1288914[/ATTACH] </p><p>this Galba has XLII (mark of value = 42 Nummi) which the seller attributed to the Period of Theoderic and Athalaric, 6th century. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1288915[/ATTACH] </p><p>I bought this one because it looks like a fit for my half As collection of cut coins. In hand I see little of the obverse or reverse, but the shape looks like a RR Janus Prow coin about 150 - 200 BC. The seller did not offer a date for the mark - V, but offered it in the same grouping as the coin above.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1288971[/ATTACH] </p><p>I posted some LRB turned into scale weights. Most of the time these weights are called Byzantine. [USER=93416]@EWC3[/USER] posted a link to a grave dig that had scales and coin scale weights.</p><p><a href="https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/11/04/03/026.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/11/04/03/026.htm" rel="nofollow">Grave 26 - Sarre Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Kent Archaeological Society's Archaeological Collection (kentarchaeology.org.uk)</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 7421163, member: 75525"]Roman coins were around a while. I think [USER=10613]@Victor_Clark[/USER] is right, they would be smooth if in continuous circulation. Some coins were repurposed: [ATTACH=full]1288914[/ATTACH] this Galba has XLII (mark of value = 42 Nummi) which the seller attributed to the Period of Theoderic and Athalaric, 6th century. [ATTACH=full]1288915[/ATTACH] I bought this one because it looks like a fit for my half As collection of cut coins. In hand I see little of the obverse or reverse, but the shape looks like a RR Janus Prow coin about 150 - 200 BC. The seller did not offer a date for the mark - V, but offered it in the same grouping as the coin above. [ATTACH=full]1288971[/ATTACH] I posted some LRB turned into scale weights. Most of the time these weights are called Byzantine. [USER=93416]@EWC3[/USER] posted a link to a grave dig that had scales and coin scale weights. [URL='https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/11/04/03/026.htm']Grave 26 - Sarre Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Kent Archaeological Society's Archaeological Collection (kentarchaeology.org.uk)[/URL][/QUOTE]
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