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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hrefn, post: 7798857, member: 115171&quot;]This is a newly arrived auction win from ROMA E-86, an imitative tremissis of Leo I which was not more precisely identified.&nbsp; The die work is pretty competent, with the dancing Victory on the reverse beautifully rendered.&nbsp; She appears to be wearing a jeweled apron, which leads me to suspect the celator did not have a good idea of Classical dress.&nbsp; The lettering suggests illiteracy, with the A of VICTORIA lacking a crossbar, and the M’s merely two upright posts.&nbsp;&nbsp; The star in the field is 6-pointed. </p><p><br /></p><p>The photo is Roma’s since I haven’t managed to take one better.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1339045[/ATTACH]</p><p>It is different in every way from the imitative tremissis of Leo I have previously posted, which has an almost abstract depiction of Victory and entirely retrograde reverse lettering.&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1339047[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I believe [USER=84905]@Tejas[/USER] has raised the subject of the origin of these.&nbsp; I do not have any more insight except to say that I cannot believe these two coins came from the same workshop, so there must be at least two sources.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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