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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Moe &quot;Wolfy&quot; Wilder, post: 8284480, member: 114824&quot;]I must say I understand the suspicious and disbelief, but I appreciate the respect and courtesy, not the derision. Again, I apologize for the suspiciously poor images. I&#039;m not joking or making this up or chasing shadows. I have been cleaning and collecting world coins since 1972 and started cleaning ancients since 2001. Eventually I was buying pounds and selling ounces, and skimming 100 coins for my self from each pound that crossed my desk. So, I am not a newbie amateur. I know how to tell letters from an overstrike from originally struck letters. I&#039;m thinking of writing a paper on&nbsp; LRB countermarks because no one has done it yet and a have a pile of them. I have cleaned literally thousands have studied thousands more online. I have read all the books and know just how crazy everything will think this is. I know it&#039;s not arcadius or honorius. The coin is what I&#039;m telling you it is, and eventually I will get an image to show it. I would have already, but my scanner took a dump and I simply don&#039;t have the equipment or steady hands to get a clear image of such a tiny item. I think my daughter&#039;s phone is capable, but she was too rushed and shaky this time to get it right. The legends look nothing like LEO&#039;s clunky letters.&nbsp; They aren&#039;t exactly the pretty letters from 70 years earlier either, but they fit RA&#039;s entire name and titles on his Tremisses which was only 3-4 mm larger- check wildwinds, there are 3 tremisses that are larger gold versions of my coin. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://wildwinds.com/coins/ric/romulus_augustus/RIC_3419.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://wildwinds.com/coins/ric/romulus_augustus/RIC_3419.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://wildwinds.com/coins/ric/romulus_augustus/RIC_3419.jpg</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>My coin is too small and light to pass for a tremisses, but that&#039;s the closest resemblance to compare it too. </p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t know what the Mankaphas was so I posted it to zeno.ru and immediate got the, No it can&#039;t be, you&#039;re so FOS. THEN the expert on the subject entered and confirmed it&#039;s identity. SO PLZ don&#039;t doubt my ability or call my ethics into question here.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=10681" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=10681" rel="nofollow">https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=10681</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The Lealianus and the Mankaphas were stolen with my entire 1200+ ancient collection in 2007.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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