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Offline palves

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Help Byzantine ID - II
« on: November 01, 2017, 05:54:59 pm »
Hi,
Need some help with 4 Byzantine coins. here is the second.
Weight: 4.26g
Diameter: 20mm

Thanks!
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Re: Help Byzantine ID - II
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2017, 07:29:50 pm »
This is an Arab coin imitating a Byzantine coin.
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Re: Help Byzantine ID - II
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2017, 04:37:59 am »
Thanks!
Contemporary Forgery?

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Re: Help Byzantine ID - II
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2017, 05:05:34 am »
It is an imitation used as currency minted in Dimashq (Damascus) in early Umayyad rule before making proper and independent Islamic coins, i would not call it forgery!!!
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Re: Help Byzantine ID - II
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2017, 07:38:46 am »
Thanks. You are right it was a bad translation from my part. Not a forgery but an imitation.
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