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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rick, post: 24717, member: 1235&quot;]As I&#039;ve brought up before, a few months back I attended a coin auction - for a dealer that had gone out of business.&nbsp; It was almost completely foreign and misc. stuff, and almost everything was auctioned off in big lots of random stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>In one of the lots that I purchased, was this coin - which was labeled as &#039;ancient bronze roman coin&#039;.&nbsp; It didn&#039;t look Roman to me, but I tossed it to the side, because I don&#039;t know much about ancient stuff...&nbsp; Anyway, a couple days ago I checked out a book from the library (&quot;Ancient Coin Collecting&quot; by Wayne G. Sayles), and while flipping through the pages, I came across a very familiar style.&nbsp; It was Sasanian... So I began looking around on the internet, and all I could find was silver examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>In frustration, I took the coin out of the holder to take a closer look.&nbsp; It felt sort of tacky - so I make my apology here before I say it - I dipped the coin... this brown tacky stuff sort of melted away to reveal that it was actually a silver coin beneath.</p><p><br /></p><p>Long story short - I believe this is a Silver Drachm from the Kavad reign 488-531 AD.&nbsp; It has a 90 degree die rotation, which appears common to the type (if the examples on the internet I found are any indication).&nbsp; I have not authenticated it yet, but it was fun to blunder across an interesting find.</p><p><br /></p><p>Image attached.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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