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Author Topic: Roman lead plates, AVG or AVS ???,  (Read 1232 times)

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Roman lead plates, AVG or AVS ???,
« on: November 02, 2016, 07:23:26 am »
Roman lead plates, AVG or AVS ???,

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Roman Lead (Seal), plates AVG or AVS ???, #01,

size: 16,3x10,7x1,45mm,
weight: 1,81g,
ref: ???, date ???,
distribution: ???

 Any opinion are velcome .. :)

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Re: Roman lead plates, AVG or AVS ???,
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2016, 01:53:32 am »
Noone has any opinion ???

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Re: Roman lead plates, AVG or AVS ???,
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2016, 02:28:01 am »
Is there writing on the image far right Q ?

Possibly a lead weight or remnants of a lead book ?
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Re: Roman lead plates, AVG or AVS ???,
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2016, 06:23:47 am »
It is very difficult to say. I know that there are several occurences of AVS in place of AVG on the coinage of Septimius Severus from his early eastern issues due to engraving errors as the engravers were probably not literate in Latin.

See the following two coins.



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Re: Roman lead plates, AVG or AVS ???,
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2016, 08:09:08 am »
Thank you both of you ... :) +++

Interesting.

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