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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2222049, member: 19463&quot;]<a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/historia/coins/imit/r23771i.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/historia/coins/imit/r23771i.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/historia/coins/imit/r23771i.htm</a></p><p>I recall seeing a bunch of this group a few years back and most were pretty horrid looking.&nbsp; The write up above mentions copies of common types but I don&#039;t recognize this one.&nbsp; The OP obverse is a bit easier to see after you see the one at the above link. I&#039;m not sure how something that exists only from one find of 600 coins can be studied considering the circumstances.&nbsp; We have to wonder how many more pots of unique items are out there waiting to be ignored by archaeologists. I&#039;m equally unsure how we can ever expect to study barbarous copies.&nbsp; Knowing the date and place of the coin that was copied proves nothing about the copies which could have been made a thousand years later and copied from a few coins they found and decided that coins to spend were a good idea.&nbsp; The bottom of the page below shows a copy of a two soldiers Roman and suggests a date of 4th to 8th century.&nbsp; How they came about that spread, I do not know.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Roman_trade_relations" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Roman_trade_relations" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Roman_trade_relations</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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