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Offline Skyler

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lead, seal or heavily debased silver?
« on: May 26, 2015, 03:00:16 pm »
Hello all my battery is dead in my scale but im assuming by its feel in hand with its 20-22 mm size that its around 1.8 or 2.0 grams. Sorry
obverse has a monogram before and after and reverse seems to be leaning on either a club, collumn etc..... seems eastern
  I cant nail this one so any help is awesome

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Re: lead seal or heavily debased silver?
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2015, 03:02:13 pm »
Can't begin to help you without a picture.
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Re: lead seal or heavily debased silver?
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2015, 03:04:49 pm »
Hahaha ive been here for a few years now and still do that! Thanks

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Re: lead seal or heavily debased silver?
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2015, 06:20:12 pm »
I think you have a Roman lead tessera there.  Good lucking finding a citation.  All are at least scarce, but they come in many, many varieties, not all uncatalogued--and the catalogues are few and largely out of print.

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Re: lead seal or heavily debased silver?
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2015, 06:57:30 pm »
Thank you dj

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Re: lead seal or heavily debased silver?
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2015, 02:54:21 pm »
We have a seal/tessera section. You can try and move it there.
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Re: lead seal or heavily debased silver?
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2015, 03:34:06 pm »
Good call. Thank you

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Re: lead, seal or heavily debased silver?
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2015, 05:39:13 pm »
Yes, this is a Roman lead tessera, the figure on the reverse is Apollo leaning against a column on which is placed a lyre.
References: M. Rostowzew, Tesserarum Urbis Romae et Suburbi Plumbearum Sylloge (St. Petersburg, 1903), no. 843; M. Overbeck, Römische Bleimarken (Munich, 1995), nos. 179-180.
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Re: lead, seal or heavily debased silver?
« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2015, 08:25:43 pm »
Sweet thank you. I was just going to repost in the tessera section . Thank you.

 

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