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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 6238965, member: 26430&quot;]Those are fantastic, [USER=84905]@Tejas[/USER] ! I would also love to know the region/tribe more specifically (Balkan is quite vague; maybe a Germanic-Gothic people in that region in the 4th-5th cent?). I especially love your Fallen Horseman, as that&#039;s my favorite collecting area, but I don&#039;t have a really good imitative yet (certainly not one so heavy, those are hard to come by &amp; really special).</p><p><br /></p><p>In <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/screenshot-2021-02-04-at-20-09-30-png.1246806/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/screenshot-2021-02-04-at-20-09-30-png.1246806/">your Tetrachy Follis type</a>, and <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/screenshot-2021-02-04-at-20-17-16-png.1246810/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/screenshot-2021-02-04-at-20-17-16-png.1246810/">the final coin of your Constantinian-types</a> especially, it is very interesting that the lettering is quite distinctive and closer to the style on the first imitative I posted above, my Constantinian VLPP or &quot;twin Victories/Altar &amp; shield&quot; type (<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/conservatori-barbarous-imitation-of-constantine-vlpp-ae3-png.1246100/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/conservatori-barbarous-imitation-of-constantine-vlpp-ae3-png.1246100/">again, just the link this time, though</a>). (Also interesting that your Follis had 2 or 3 extra letters in addition to the I&#039;s, and how they chose to use them. Obv, just I&#039;s with a couple C&#039;s. Rev mixes it up much more with S&#039;s and B or O or maybe a greek...Phi? I love it.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been wondering about mine for years since I brushed it off from a bag of uncleaned coins (maybe in 2005?). Where&#039;s it from? What others did they make? The &quot;calligraphy&quot; is quite beautiful in its own right on many of these, and especially impressive because they probably didn&#039;t speak/read Latin or write in any language at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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