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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 2879957, member: 82549&quot;]Byzantine coins were routinely overstruck on coins of earlier emperors. When a new emperor assumed the puyrple, he frequently recalled coins from the previous emperor and had his name and image stamped on them. Often the restrike would fail to obliterate elements of the original coin, and some of the lettering or image from the earlier coin appears on the restrike. It can create quite a mess for someone trying the figure out what&#039;s going on.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the &quot;r&quot; on your coin may actually be a weakly struck &quot;C&quot; for &quot;CON&quot;, indicating that you coin was struck (or actually, restruck) in Constantinople.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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