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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;snewman, post: 1185946, member: 31036&quot;]About 15 years ago, I made an ebay purchase of one of those bags of heavily encrusted ancient coins from a &quot;fresh dig&quot; in Europe somewhere.&nbsp; Spent a (fun) long time cleaning off the crud and identifying them through Wildwinds online database.&nbsp; Pretty wide range -- From Nerva to Justinian.&nbsp; Obvious that it was just a mishmash of coins.&nbsp; Some had Greek text on Roman coins too.&nbsp; Anyway, that is just to preface that this coin could be anything.. It was the only one I couldn&#039;t attribute.&nbsp; Appears to be brass and is 4.8 grams and has a diameter of just over 3/4&quot;.&nbsp; Has a head facing right on the front and an eagle on the reverse.&nbsp; Appears to have a hole drilled partially on each side in the middle (done sometime later?)&nbsp; Some of the letters as I think I see them are: </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://sites.google.com/site/thairunts/coins-wheats/brass_o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://sites.google.com/site/thairunts/coins-wheats/brass_r.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse : ANT ?&nbsp; Could be a Pi and a Tau?&nbsp; More letters to the right of the head</p><p>Reverse : To the left above the eagle/bird&#039;s head is PAC and to the right is a DEVIT?</p><p><br /></p><p>I had given up, but after joining here, I was flipping through some old coins and saw it again.&nbsp; Hope someone out there has an idea about what it is as it always perplexed me.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I can try to get a little better pictures too if that helps.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Scott[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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