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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cobbler, post: 3193616, member: 97497&quot;]I&nbsp; have no idea&nbsp; where or why I bought this coin,&nbsp; probably sometime back in the 1980s, so I&#039;d just like to find out what I can about it! [ATTACH=full]824948[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Copper or bronze; size 15 x 17 mm, weight , c 3g</p><p><br /></p><p>The very poor definition suggests it&#039;s a barbarous radiate so maybe I just decided to have an example of one</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruler:&nbsp; ??, ?3rd century AD</p><p>Type:&nbsp; Plain &#039;AE4&#039;&nbsp; unless&nbsp; it&#039;s possibly a crude copy of an Ae Antonianus</p><p>Mint:&nbsp; ?Western Provinces</p><p>Obverse:&nbsp; Either worn off or it never had one!&nbsp; Radiate bust, right</p><p>Reverse:&nbsp; ?3&nbsp; letters but I can&#039;t make them out</p><p>???Possibly a crude copy of&nbsp; Mars advancing right, holding trophy in left hand and transverse spear in right hand.</p><p>&#039;II&#039;&nbsp; (or possibly &#039;W&#039;) in reverse field</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps I should just label it as an example of a 3rd century barbarous radiate and leave it at that?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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